The Ideas of 1914
The comparatively static nature of the front line in the west for much of the war meant that, after the...
The comparatively static nature of the front line in the west for much of the war meant that, after the...
In the 1690s the English army’s matchlock musket (slow to load, clumsy to operate at the mercy of the elements)...
Life at sea may not have been a particularly attractive prospect for a man in Georgian England, but it was...
The Allies agreed that the establishment of a second front in north-west Europe was essential to defeat Germany. The Soviets...
The Russian army in 1914 was considerably larger than that of Germany at 5 million men against the 4.5 million...
Four miles north of Preston, Idaho, the Bear River quietly ambles through green valleys and sagebrush covered mountains, the Shoshone...
The battle began when Tudor’s vanguard advanced and engaged with Richard’s, at some point during the morning of 22nd August...
It would not have taken Midshipman Horatio Nelson long to earn that life board ship – at least below decks...
In the middle of the 17th century England experienced a great convulsion of political and military violence, which quickly spread...