About Us

WAR ATLAS is an independent online magazine about the military history of the First and Second World Wars. Our aim is to explain what happened, where it happened, who was involved and why it mattered — clearly, accurately and without taking sides.

We publish long, carefully researched articles that readers can rely on. Every article is built from verifiable historical sources, and the sources are listed at the end of each article so readers can check them for themselves.

What we cover

The site is organised into five areas:

• Battles — the major engagements of both world wars, told hour by hour and day by day where the record allows.
• Equipment — the ships, aircraft, tanks, artillery and small arms of the period, with specifications, variants and service history.
• People — the commanders, scientists, politicians and ordinary men and women whose decisions and experiences shaped the wars.
• Memory — the battlefields, cemeteries, museums and memorials where the wars are remembered today, and how to visit them.
• Tactics — the ideas behind the fighting: how plans were made, how they worked, and what they cost.

How we work

Every article starts from the sources: official histories, archives, memoirs and the work of professional historians. Where the sources disagree — for example on casualty figures — we say so, and we give the figures as a range with the sources, rather than picking one number and pretending it is certain. Our tone is neutral and documentary. We describe what each side did and what followed from it; we do not glorify war, and we do not write propaganda for any side.

Illustrations

All illustrations on this site are generated by artificial intelligence in a realistic documentary style. They are illustrations, not real historical photographs. We use them because real wartime photographs often cannot be used safely for copyright reasons, and because a clearly labelled illustration can show a scene — a ship, a battlefield, a machine — without pretending to be a photograph taken at the time.

Languages

The site is published first in English and Vietnamese. French, German, Japanese and Spanish editions are planned for later. Each language edition is a full translation of the same articles, not a summary.

Who the site is for

WAR ATLAS is written for anyone who wants to understand the two world wars: students, teachers, researchers, military-history enthusiasts, and families visiting a battlefield or a museum who want to know what happened there. No specialist knowledge is needed to read the site, and technical terms are explained where they appear.

If you spot a mistake, have a source we should look at, or want to suggest a subject, please write to us. See our Contact page.