The First World War created new experiences of pain and suffering, and had profound consequences for the shape of wars to come.…
It perished in the freezing wastes of Arctic Russia on 20 June 1942. Now, thanks to a 20-year volunteer project, it has…
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…
It was the last battle of the British Civil Wars – a final clash between 28,000 men of Cromwell’s New Model Army…
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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…
David Porter takes a look at everything that went wrong with the Large Light Cruiser.…
Overshadowed by Culloden the following year – the battle that finally terminated the century-old Jacobite cause – Prestonpans is little known. Chris…