Close to Charing Cross station in London is the oddly named Ship and Shovell pub. Initially, this seems a strange combination, until…
The West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy had more or less terminated the slave trade on the West African coast by…
Daniel Siemens’s excellent new history of the Sturmabteilungen — the SA; better known as the Nazi Party’s Stormtroopers or Brownshirts — includes…
My heart sank slightly when I was asked to review this book. I expected yet another dirge about needless casualties, poor generalship,…
Ulysses Simpson Grant is probably the most recognisable army officer in the pantheon of American history. He is, at the same time,…
Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of the war
When King Haakon of Norway, one of the many exiled leaders from occupied Europe in London during World War II, visited the…
Some of us still remember the time quite vividly. By the end of 1967, the United States had been involved in the…
While admitting that Haig was no genius, revisionist historians have argued that by 1918, he was able to co-ordinate successfully all elements…
Taylor Downing reports on Peter Jackson’s new WWI centenary film. New Zealander Peter Jackson is known to cinema-goers for the lavish spectacles…
Patrick Boniface on the deaths in combat of regal warriors. The savagery of the Zulu Wars showed no respect for class or…