Bringing up the rations

In issue 155, Professor Philpott laid out the case for why the US Army did not ‘win’ WWI on the battlefield. Here he explores how the major US contribution to victory came in money, material and motivation

By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i

Conflict photography has been manipulated in a range of ways since the medium began, as Hilary Roberts reveals in her new book. She talks to David Clark

The grisly fate of more than 16,000 soldiers and civilians during the First Anglo-Afghan War serves as a timeless lesson in hubris and bad leadership

Civilian reactors have become strategic cover for Russian forces during their invasion of Ukraine