The very word 'Viking' conjures up images of fearsome longships, merciless invasions, and slaughtered victims. But were the Vikings unique in their…
Perched on sofas and peering in from every angle, these Allied officers were obviously desperate to catch a glimpse of the momentous…
Seema Syeda appreciates the charm and chutzpah of indefatigable war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Having crossed the Atlantic to cover her first conflict,…
Overshadowed by Culloden the following year – the battle that finally terminated the century-old Jacobite cause – Prestonpans is little known. Chris…
More than 4,000 square miles of hills and ridges, thickly forested, dissected by streams and rivers, its few roads punctuated by chokepoints.…
The spectacular remains of an Iron Age warrior, discovered 12 years ago in Chichester, England, will soon be put on public display…
The American Civil War might easily have ended in 1862. In the event, it dragged on for three more years, claiming the…
The truth is that the Normandy Campaign was a vast enterprise, of engineering, logistics, strategy, and planning, but it was also, once…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and…