This book is beautifully written, brilliantly structured, immensely moving, and deeply disturbing. It cannot be recommended strongly enough – especially for those…
It was a futuristic-looking aircraft, which Lockheed publicised as ‘a missile with a man in it’.…
Ordinarily, a gunboat was a lesser craft, mounting just a few guns. They were particularly useful in shallow waters that larger warships…
Remarkably, it appears that the radio was never used: the box hissed with inrushing air when it was opened by archaeologists at…
The Battle of Waterloo is intrinsically linked to the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon, the towering military figures of the early 19th…
The Chicago-born ‘slider’ became the youngest Olympic gold medallist ever as a 16-year-old at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St Moritz. Four…
The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.…
David Stahel’s latest book, Retreat from Moscow: a new history of Germany’s winter campaign, 1941-1942, is here to add vital nuance to…
With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…
This book is written rather in the style of an excellent set of lecture notes produced by a diligent tutor. Frank Ledwidge,…