Sometimes poor quality-control can be as lethal as bad design – this was certainly true in the case of HMS Glatton.…
Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict…
In his poem ‘Dulce et decorum est’, Wilfred Owen reflects upon his experiences in World War One to capture the horrors of…
As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…
Because of the unrelenting ferocity of trench warfare, the term has also come to mean a fierce, grinding contest of a non-military…
Edward Henry Hynman Allenby was born in 1861 in Brackenhurst, Nottinghamshire in comfortable circumstances – a Victorian squire perhaps destined to help…
Rob Johnson’s achievement in this book is to take Colonel T E Lawrence seriously as a theoretician and practitioner of war, and…
In the post-war years, they were remembered on monuments and in cemeteries, ‘made present’ by absence, by anonymity rather than by naming.…
The bunker, under the village of Wijtschate in Flanders, is more than 20 feet underground and is believed to have accommodated up…
The U-boat went down with all hands and has rested on the seabed, some 37km (23 miles) off the coast of Yorkshire,…