In 1798, less than a decade before Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British victory and a key moment in
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Although the title says ‘written at the time’, this is not a collection of personal memoirs or diaries. Nor is it the
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Sometimes poor quality-control can be as lethal as bad design – this was certainly true in the case of HMS Glatton.
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There are numerous histories of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (to give the ‘English’ Civil Wars their more-accurate title), as such,
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Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict
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It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas
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Driven by desperation in the waning months of the Second World War – and motivated by a martial code, bushido, that glorified
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We’re giving away four copies of Heroes of the Holocaust, courtesy of Ebury Press. In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters
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The project removed the estimated 13,000 lethal devices that were still buried on the islands.
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The find is believed to have been part of an arms shipment that landed in Lochaber a fortnight after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s
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