Military History Encyclopedia on the Web

Welcome to HistoryOfWar.org. We aim to make our site your first call for information on any aspect of military history. If we don't have what you want,then contact us via our military history discussion forum or contact us directly

Currently we have 3,341 articles, 1,292 pictures, 370 maps, 259 unit histories and over 2,382,800 words in original articles. We don't just cover the best known conflicts, although we do have good coverage of the First and Second World Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and now the American Civil War.

We now open a new section of the site, a day-by-day history of the Second World War, covering the 2,214 days of the war from the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 to the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong on 16 September 1945 (two weeks after the surrender in Tokyo Bay), and currently containing 5,272 individual facts.
Recent Image (go to updates) Spitfire Mk Vc of No.92 Squadron at Gibraltar
Spitfire Mk Vc of No.92 Squadron at Gibraltar

Check our recent articles page (last update 9 December 2009) to see what we are doing at the moment. New articles will also be announced on our Blog, our forum and our mailing list (s

Our section of reviews of new book and DVD releases was last updated on 27 November 2009.
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