In almost forty years in Asia without a home posting, British officer John Cross spent ten of them ‘under the jungle canopy’.

When Hitler was striving for recognition and relevance in the political turmoil of the early Weimar years in Germany he gave ...

In February 1917, German U-boats launched a savage unrestricted campaign against both Allied and neutral shipping. At its ...

Persecuted, outlawed, imprisoned, shunned. You might think this refers only to the LGBTQ+ community, but their experience is ...

Operation Lustre, the British effort to support Greece against German aggression in World War II has long suffered from a lack of the attention that it really deserves. In fact its reduction to the ...

The period we call the Second World War, the period from 1939-1945 for the European Theater of War, and 1937-1945 for the Pacific Theater of War, has been the subject of thousands upon thousands of ...

The former Great Eastern Railway was at one time seen as a rather dull sleepy railway in the eastern corner of England whose principal traffic was London commuters, holiday makers to the Essex, ...

Norman Ridley, author of Spying for Hitler, which is available now, reveals the fascinating story of how the Nazis’ Ludwig Spy Ring was uncovered just before the United States entered the Second World ...

Sixty million years ago, an asteroid between ten and fifteen kilometres wide struck the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Central America at a speed of around thirty kilometres per second and caused an ...

At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ross Smith had broken the England-Australia aero record in a Vickers Vimy, Roly Alderson decided that he wanted to fly. Denied a secondary education, orphan ...