OLD FUSS & FEATHERS

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

The vast, open spaces of Canada’s British Columbia can make you feel very small, but very much alive, discovers Rosie Paterson

AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

A Russia of trees and liberty and peace: ...

I magine you’re in Nebraska, standing on North America’s Great Plains, where the broad Platte and Missouri rivers join on their way to the mighty Mississippi. It’s 1804, and in the blistering 36°C hea