In the Czech Republic, the statue of WWII Soviet military leader Ivan Konev is set to topple, following a decision by a…
How did London communicate with the Resistance in Occupied Europe during the Second World War? A newly released archive of BBC documents…
There can be little doubt that the export of opium from India to China by, among others, the Honourable East India Company…
The very word 'Viking' conjures up images of fearsome longships, merciless invasions, and slaughtered victims. But were the Vikings unique in their…
Neil Faulkner reviews this compelling biography of Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant academic physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who has been described…
Perched on sofas and peering in from every angle, these Allied officers were obviously desperate to catch a glimpse of the momentous…
Seema Syeda appreciates the charm and chutzpah of indefatigable war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Having crossed the Atlantic to cover her first conflict,…
By the time the Viet Cong flag was being raised across Saigon on 30 April 1975, the United States had spent the…
More than 4,000 square miles of hills and ridges, thickly forested, dissected by streams and rivers, its few roads punctuated by chokepoints.…
The truth is that the Normandy Campaign was a vast enterprise, of engineering, logistics, strategy, and planning, but it was also, once…