‘A date which will live in infamy’ was the iconic phrase coined by President Roosevelt to describe the Japanese attack on Pearl…
Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War In the new, revised (paperback) edition of Killing Time, Nicholas J Saunders has updated…
Compiled from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum, this oral history recounts the deeds of those – as recounted by…
Six Weeks: the short and gallant life of the British officer in the First World War The stiff upper-lip spirit of the…
The Battle of Kohima, though fought on a smaller scale than its Russian equivalent, is rightly remembered as the ‘Stalingrad of the…
The Life and Times of Frank Thornton Birkinshaw is exactly that, devoting two of its chapters to Frank’s enlistment in the 8th…
Wellington’s Highland Warriors: from the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo. The amalgamation of the Scottish regiments into one ‘super-regiment’,…
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…
