Letters

Our pick of the latest military history books

The German army is often depicted as an epic, unstoppable machine. There’s no doubt that, at the outbreak of the First World War, it was the most formidably organised military force on the planet – bu

With the global sportscar scene buoyant right now and Le Mans upcoming, Matt James reflects back to a time when the World Sportscar Championship disappeared altogether against a highly political backdrop in 1991

I was interested to learn from David Musgrove’s online HistoryExtra article that the Bayeux Tapestry may come to England. As a boy of 11, I was inspired by learning about the tapestry at school to sew

WE WILL BE BACK I was delighted to ...

Forty years ago, football hooliganism was at its peak, causing outrage, fear and fatalities. How did the sport recover from its darkest days, and what happened to the men who belonged to the “firms”? Rosa Silverman reports