The Armourer

The Armourer covers battles and campaigns including features on collecting medals, weapons, uniforms and equipment.

The Armourer

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militarianews • Duncan Evans reports on what’s happening in the world of military history and collecting

Militaria for sale • Lenny Warren trawls the internet to find bargains, rare, interesting or bizarre items of militaria

Third Reich at Ratisbon’s • The weapons, uniforms, medals and militaria coming up for auction

Big guns at Rock Island

The Palace Armoury • Graham Priest takes a trip to Malta and checks out one of the largest collections of classic arms and armour

Classic arms at Olympia • Duncan Evans reports on the latest militaria sold at auctions around the country

Dinner at Tennants

Battle of Britain medals at DNW

Family archive at Bosleys

Operation Anthropoid • Ian Baxter describes the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security office, and the appalling aftermath

The French TAP50 set • Edward Hallett rounds off his series on Cold War NATO webbing by looking at an iconic French set

Soviet women in WWII • Not all Russian women, at home or in the Red Army, were assigned combat roles. John C Pursley looks at those who served in a different way

The Battle of New Orleans • Graham Priest takes a look at the final battle in the War of 1812

The Empress of India medal • Peter Duckers looks at a medal from 1877 commemorating a lavish, Imperial extravaganza

German rifle grenades • Michael Heidler investigates the use of grenades fired from rifles in the trench warfare of WWI

The tragedy of Operation Tiger • John C Pursley discovers the human sacrifices incurred to ensure the plans for the D-Day landings were viable

Special operations collecting • Edward Hallett looks at collecting items from the SOE and the German security forces who were trying to stop them

The Manstopper cartridge • George Prescott describes a 19th century invention designed to increase the killing power of the British Army’s new rifle cartridge

The Steyr Volkskarabiner • Michael Heidler takes a look at a last ditch weapon of Nazi Germany and a very rare variant

Fortification development during the Crusades • Michael Stroud looks at the evolution of Crusader fortifications and their impact on fortress development in Europe

The Nepalese Brunswick rifle • John Walter looks at the guns made in Nepal soon after the Indian Mutiny had ended, towards the end of 1857

The Print Inspector • Ray Westlake looks at a portrait of Colonel Welbore Ellis Doyle of the 14th Regiment

reviewsroundup • Duncan Evans reviews the latest releases in the world of military history and collecting

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