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V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

Today, the ocean liner is often considered a glamorous yet thoroughly outdated form of transport. While ships such as the RMS Titanic and the RMS Lusitania remain household names, their lesser-known c

Sunday 18 June 1944 was a fine day. The morning service at the Royal Military Chapel (the Guards’ Chapel) in Birdcage Walk in the City of Westminster, Central London, was officially commemorating the

Greg Manning sails his Fairey Atalanta from Arisaig in the West Highlands to the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides

Originally supplanting paratroops as a means of delivering soldiers precisely onto the battlefield, air assault became the standard for strategic planning in the Cold War. But as air threats have escalated, has peer-on-peer conflict made the tactic obsolete?

n 1948, Harley Earl, Detroit’s influential wizard of kitsch, put tail-fins on a Cadillac and set General Motors on the road to becoming the world’s largest and most profitable corporation. Earl’s magi