Shell hole bathtub

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

The Red Sea and Persian Gulf have been areas of historic tension for decades, with Western navies maintaining an almost constant presence

2 MAR 1965 OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER BEGINS ...

After decades experimenting with muskets, Oda Nobunaga perfected their use at the Battle of Nagashino, revolutionising not just samurai warfare but Japanese society itself

On the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan, Charles Harris looks back at the 14th Army’s extraordinary campaign and the remarkable characters who shaped it

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