‘What the did Crusades ever do for us?’ by Roger Crowley
What did the crusades ever do for us? This clash of medieval civilizations is defined by warfare, but over…
Military History
Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become…
The Kremlin Letters: David Reynolds on the correspondence of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
For nearly four years, and against all the odds, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin led the…
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day by Guy Cuthbertson – An Extract
Armistice Day was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. In…
Secret Intelligence and the Freedom of Information – by Helen Fry
In her new book, The London Cage, historian Helen Fry reveals what life was like in one of…
Hitler’s Obsession with the Occult – by Eric Kurlander
The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Heinrich Himmler’s personal…
Yitzhak Rabin, by Itamar Rabinovich – An Extract
The Six Day War was fought between 5th and 10th June 1967 by Israel and the neighbouring states of Egypt,…
Remembering the 1967 Six Day War by Guy Laron
The Six Day War was fought between 5th and 10th June 1967 by Israel and the neighbouring states of Egypt,…
‘War: An Enquiry’ by A. C. Grayling – an extract
For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. In War:…
Women Reporters at the Front Line by Ray Moseley
On International Women’s Day, Reporting War author Ray Moseley celebrates the outstanding work of the courageous women reporters of…
Civil Wars by David Armitage – An Extract
For much of recorded history, the most frequent, horrific, destructive and yet strangely overshadowed form of collective human…
The First Victory: An Introduction
Andrew Stewart introduces his new book The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign,…
The Arab Revolt: A Century On …
‘The ghost of Lawrence still haunts the Middle East.’ – Neil Faulkner Neil Faulkner is a freelance archaeologist…
Lawrence of Arabia’s War – An Introduction by Neil Faulkner
‘A misfit and maverick, a romantic and orientalist, an archaeologist and wartime intelligence officer, he was perhaps a…
The Rise & Fall of the Angevin Empire – by Richard Huscroft
‘The history of the Angevin Empire is not just one of kings, queens, warlords and saints.’ Author of…