This issue, we’re giving away three copies of Nazis and Nobles: the history of a misalliance, courtesy of Oxford University Press. In…
In 1798, less than a decade before Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British victory and a key moment in…
Although the title says ‘written at the time’, this is not a collection of personal memoirs or diaries. Nor is it the…
Sometimes poor quality-control can be as lethal as bad design – this was certainly true in the case of HMS Glatton.…
There are numerous histories of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (to give the ‘English’ Civil Wars their more-accurate title), as such,…
Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
We’re giving away four copies of Heroes of the Holocaust, courtesy of Ebury Press. In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters…
The project removed the estimated 13,000 lethal devices that were still buried on the islands.…
The find is believed to have been part of an arms shipment that landed in Lochaber a fortnight after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s…