The MI9 competition: How to decipher a letter encrypted with MI9 code
Try your hand at deciphering this MI9-inspired coded letter for a chance to win Helen Fry’s books on…
Military History
Military Strategy: A Global History – a Q&A with Jeremy Black
In this Q&A, Jeremy Black, Professor of History, Exeter University and author of Military Strategy: A Global History…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Second World War
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the First World War
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
A Schoolmaster’s War – an extract from Harry Rée’s wartime diaries
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
‘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…
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…