The Royal Scots Greys: The regiment that caught the French Eagle. The image of the Scots Greys charging out of the picture…
A series of German World War II propaganda leaflets have come light, after being put on sale by private collectors. It is…
Michael Seifert, a Nazi war criminal known as the ‘Beast of Bolzano’, has died aged 86 in an Italian hospital, where he…
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, soldiers on all sides put down their weapons,…
UCL’s Gabe Moshenska muses on the extraordinary iconic significance of the gas mask. My particular object of interest is the ‘General Civilian…
Every victory comes at a price. Here we look at the staggering cost of human life in five of history’s fiercest confrontations…
New thought sees Marathon get revised in the long run. New perspectives on the Battle of Marathon are beginning to challenge the…
Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope Andrew Browne Cunningham described by his biographer, John Winton, as ‘the greatest admiral since…
Book Club: The Kill Zone Chris Ryan is ‘the one that got away’: the one member of the famous Bravo Two Zero SAS…
‘A date which will live in infamy’ was the iconic phrase coined by President Roosevelt to describe the Japanese attack on Pearl…