Seige of madrid

A Spain allied with the Nazis in the Second World War would have ruined the Allied campaign in the Middle East, but doomed the Francoist state to an earlier collapse

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862

Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg

In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott

How Real Oviedo went all the way to the depths of Spanish football, twice, and came back again