Espionage comes to IWM North, the Royal Armouries Museum marks VE/VJ Day, and the REME’s airborne war is in focus

WAR, EMPIRE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW WORLD

THE BEST FILMS, BOOKS AND GREAT DAYS OUT TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

While leading a Montagnard Mobile Strike Force in Kon Tum Province, Vietnam, this warrant officer drew enemy fire to rescue a comrade, then oversaw the withdrawal of the wounded

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh

Anyone who’s read Helen Macdonald’s remarkable memoir H is for Hawk – about grief, nature and training a goshawk – will be aware of its powerful impact. The book has now been turned into a film starri