The stalingrad of africa

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

THE SECOND WORLD WAR STILL PLAYS A MASSIVE role in our national mythology in Britain. But if I were to ask you: “Who was the fourth ally?” I imagine that most readers would have to think twice. The an

Women hurled rotten vegetables and the contents of chamber pots from upstairs windows. Paving stones were prised loose to block the roads, while an overturned builder’s lorry became a barricade. Child

On 1 September 1939, Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers found himself in Berlin to take part in a European conference about telephone systems. Germany invaded Poland the same day. Flowers and a fellow

In the days and hours before October 7, intelligence that should have made its way up the IDF chain of command didn’t reach people who could have connected the dots

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