This book is beautifully written, brilliantly structured, immensely moving, and deeply disturbing. It cannot be recommended strongly enough – especially for those
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It was a futuristic-looking aircraft, which Lockheed publicised as ‘a missile with a man in it’.
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Ordinarily, a gunboat was a lesser craft, mounting just a few guns. They were particularly useful in shallow waters that larger warships
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Remarkably, it appears that the radio was never used: the box hissed with inrushing air when it was opened by archaeologists at
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The Battle of Waterloo is intrinsically linked to the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon, the towering military figures of the early 19th
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The Chicago-born ‘slider’ became the youngest Olympic gold medallist ever as a 16-year-old at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St Moritz. Four
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The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.
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David Stahel’s latest book, Retreat from Moscow: a new history of Germany’s winter campaign, 1941-1942, is here to add vital nuance to
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With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene
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This book is written rather in the style of an excellent set of lecture notes produced by a diligent tutor. Frank Ledwidge,
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