Yankees & rebels

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862

On 21 October 1805, smoke filled the skies over the seas west of Cape Trafalgar, a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain, as a fierce battle raged. After nearly five hours of int

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

LONG MARSTON, YORKSHIRE 2 JULY 1644

War art is often associated with male heroics – sketches dashed off under fire, or epic battlefield paintings filled with flags and explosions. Yet the value of women’s war art is that it helps captur

On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h