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Despite (or maybe because of!) the awful '70s ear worm by Boney M, I, like millions of others have a fascination with the story of...

During this centenary year of the outbreak of World War One, I’ve been reading a number of books about the War and its causes.  One of t...

Two things first opened my mind as a teenager to the possibility of becoming a lawyer: the incomparable Rumpole of the Bailey, John Mortim...

One doesn’t have to be Mystic Meg to make a decent fist of creating a publisher’s calendar for history books over the next few years.  H...

For the British (and, possibly, American) reader, there’s a section in Armageddon , Max Hastings’ masterful account of the last year or ...

Tomorrow marks the 97 th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest and, arguably, pointless offensi...

In first part of Lawrence Scott Sheets’ memoir cum reportage of the two decades immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union,...

In a world where many, if not most, “classics” can be obtained online or on e-reader for nothing or next to nothing, it may come as som...

I remember being slightly stunned when I first saw my great-grandfather take off his foot and prop it up against the wall.  To my young...

There’s a moment at the very end of John Reed’s first-hand account of Russia ’s October Revolution of 1917 that made me give an involuntary ...

James Barrs’ new book, A Line in the Sand , is a fascinating study of the way that France and Britain schemed and intrigued against each ot...

The American Civil War claimed the lives of over 820,000 Americans, including some 30% of all Southern men between the ages of 18 and 40 and...