A clash of empires

Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge

A prolonged conflict, a modified Treaty of Versailles and no League of Nations may have transpired without direct American involvement

The morning air was charged with anticipation as the people of New Orleans gathered before the Cabildo, the grand seat of government on the Plaza de Armas (now Jackson Square). Almost three weeks earl

The jungle warfare in the Far East was both a tactical and political challenge for British forces in WWII

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

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