Leading historians share the texts that have inspired and informed their work

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This robust, pugnacious aircraft dominated the skies and became the premier carrier-based fighter of the Pacific War

Take a peek behind the scenes of our latest issue with the writers and photographers who made it happen

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i

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