By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path

After spending two months bubling around southern Spain, you join the ride at Valor, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Andalusia. We were contemplating our return route north to Santander and the ferr

The grisly fate of more than 16,000 soldiers and civilians during the First Anglo-Afghan War serves as a timeless lesson in hubris and bad leadership

In this issue’s Frontline, the US in Greenland, its contribution to WWI, nuclear threats in Ukraine, Operation Urgent Fury’s aftermath and Lviv’s troubled history

KARELIAN ISTHMUS 25 JUNE – 9 JULY 1944

At around 2.30pm, the cry “¡Viva Puerto Rico libre!” reverberated around the chamber of the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC. Lolita Lebrón then fired a shot from a .38-calibre pistol. He