Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive quriky beautiful and sometimes baff..

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Doctors nurses medics and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for..

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..

Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of inte..

The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened beyo..

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On capture British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans “For you the war is over”..

On 11th November 1920 huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior..

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In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..