By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not have joined the National Guard, let alone join two armies to ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.

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The German actor made Hollywood history in 1929 when he won Best Actor over a dog, before becoming a willing cog in Adolf ...

The ANC's long track record of political mistakes and policy failures is finally catching up to it precisely at the moment ...

Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For Josef Schumpeter, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms that would not survive the spread of capitalism. But even the ...

John Norris looks at a mainstay of the British Army in WWI; the 18-Pounder field gun ...