The corroded helmet would have been an essential component of protection for any Viking warrior. Several iron bands and plates, riveted together,…
The bunker, under the village of Wijtschate in Flanders, is more than 20 feet underground and is believed to have accommodated up…
In the Second World War, the dockyards and riverside factories of London’s East End were essential to the country’s struggle against the…
The U-boat went down with all hands and has rested on the seabed, some 37km (23 miles) off the coast of Yorkshire,…
A new hull walkway, opened in August of this year, allows enthusiasts to descend into the base of the ship’s dry dock…
This unique ship is the last of over 800 tank-carrying landing craft to have served at D-Day, the amphibious Allied assault on…
Hunger is breezy in its approach, but the subject Blom discusses is a serious one. Indeed, the spectre of food – or…
Thirty years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews have resulted in this fast-paced book seeing the light of day –…
Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while…
The idea ‘took off’ in the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation, when a German invasion seemed imminent and there was a critical…