Grey wolves

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

Musicians, aristocrats, war heroes and even Members of Parliament conspired to turn Britain over to the Nazis. But for the bravery of British intelligence agents, they may have succeeded

The Luftwaffe’s feared ‘destroyer’ long-range fighter met with very mixed success

What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

The Red Sea and Persian Gulf have been areas of historic tension for decades, with Western navies maintaining an almost constant presence