This book is written rather in the style of an excellent set of lecture notes produced by a diligent tutor. Frank Ledwidge,…
Kate Webb was the war reporter who came back from the dead.…
Like a sort of Second World War smorgasbord, you can take a look and pull tasty morsels out of Hidden Places of…
At the time of his death in 1914, Bennet Burleigh was quite possibly the most famous war correspondent in the world. The…
Guns are an everyday feature of most military museums, but one weapon in particular has attracted a lot of attention. A WWI…
Historian Christopher Browning labelled members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 ‘ordinary men’. Neither of the SS or the Wehrmacht, they were mostly…
The victims of World War II are remembered in regular commemorations, but many of the fatalities have never been recovered. Now academics…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
