Yankees & rebels

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

Your interesting feature about the role of medieval warhorses in shaping British history (August) reminded me of a subsequent occasion in which horsepower became a critical factor. In April 1660, with

APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VIRGINIA 9 APRIL 1865

Vietnam c.1940s – present

Women hurled rotten vegetables and the contents of chamber pots from upstairs windows. Paving stones were prised loose to block the roads, while an overturned builder’s lorry became a barricade. Child

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car