World War II had been taking its grim course for two years without the involvement of the world’s richest and…
If there was one thing at which Germany’s well-trained and disciplined Wehrmacht excelled, it was Blitzkrieg (lightning war). This was…
The so-called phony war ended in May 1940 when the Battle of France began. It would end in disastrous defeat…
The Royal Navy’s HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship that saw action in World War I. But by 1939…
Can there ever have been a greater military disaster than the Battle of the Somme? It seems unlikely. One side’s…
Even in a conflict characterized by poor strategic leadership, the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 was one of the more shamefully…
When the Cunard Company launched its latest passenger liner at Clydebank in Scotland on June 7 1906, RMS Lusitania was…
In the late 19th century Britannia did indeed rule the waves, having enjoyed supremacy since the Battle of Trafalgar. The…
One of the iconic images of the glory days of British Empire shows a tall, stiff-backed soldier standing defiant at…
In 1874 Sir Henry Bartle Frere was appointed High Commissioner of South Africa and sent to unify the country as…