ARTEFACT OF WAR

AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

A round 3.30pm on 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker. Minutes later, his still warm body was carried outside by loyal staffers and burned in the Reich Chancellery gardens. H

This moment is surely imbued with the most global symbolism. It was when, according to the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, adventurers sailed across the north Atlantic from settlements on the west coast of

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Owain Glyndŵr attempted to free Wales from the tyrannical grasp of the English but vanished into obscurity