ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Although I realise that it is a favourite pastime among historians, particularly the British, to demonstrate that our idols have feet of clay, I must protest at the inclusion of Winston Churchill in t

The three Defenders that tackled this year’s Dakar Rally (p48) represented the first works entry on the gruelling rally raid from JLR or its predecessors. But it wasn’t the first time a manufacturer-o

OLD FUSS & FEATHERS

Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

Rue des Colonels Renard, near the Arc de Triomphe in the 17th arrondissement, is situated in a well-heeled part of Paris, featuring fashionable apartments at vertigo-inducing rents. In the late 1930s