The Road Before Me Weeps by Nick Thorpe – An Extract
War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have…
War
‘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:…
The Mongols and the Islamic World from Conquest to Conversion
The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Chinggis Khan and his…
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 South China Sea: A Review by Lyric Hughes Hale
The South China Sea is a marginal sea in geographical terms, but due both to its history and…
VE Day Anniversary: A WW2 Round-Up
Friday 8 May is the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the date that marked the end of the…
The Siege of Bastogne: Up Close and Personal
In the harsh winter of 1944-45, the month-long battle for Bastogne, a town with a peacetime population of…
Author Article by Charles Carlton: How War Shaped the British Isles
This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746 by history professor Charles Carlton is an innovative and moving…
Afghanistan: Can we learn from our mistakes?
As the conflict in Afghanistan approaches its tenth anniversary this October, we take a look at Yale’s forthcoming…
Author Article by Ian Robertson: Mapping the Peninsular War
IAN ROBERTSON, author of An Atlas of the Peninsular War, reveals how he developed a passion for the…