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Currently we have 7,639 articles, 11,349 pictures, 423 maps, 958 unit histories, 2,278 book reviews and over 6,425,500 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 the American Civil War.

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Our section of reviews of new book releases was last updated on 3 April 2026

HMS Saumerez (1916) was a Parker class flotilla leader that served with the 12th Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet in 1917-18.

We now have 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 5,308 individual facts.

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