Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…
The late Richard Holmes considered Marlborough to be Britain’s greatest general. He was probably right. But, like many great commanders, Marlborough was paired with a man of…
MHM Editor Neil Faulkner reviews Ken Burns’ new 18-hour blockbuster The Vietnam War, and compares it to three other great TV war documentaries…
Taylor Downing reveals an official cover-up of mental illness in the later years of the war. It was not just the…
Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, was the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent during the Second World War.…
We know the story. Goaded into a hopeless war by an expanding colonial empire, thousands of warriors rise against their oppressors –…
A huge, mountainous, landlocked Central Asian state, Afghanistan has defied invaders for 2,500 years. Jules Stewart takes a look at the country’s…
Film-maker Ross Barnwell is crowdfunding for a new documentary drama based on Geoffrey Malins, the cameraman who famously shot footage of the…
War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the…
The epic defence of Chakdara is intriguing. It lasted a week (26 July-2 August 1897), involved 240 men defending an isolated post…