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

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When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Army numbered just over one million men, comprising both the regular forces and the part-time Territorial Army. The National Service (Armed

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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

GERALD CORBETT, chief executive of Railtrack from 1997 to 2000, speaks exclusively to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, in conjunction with the Calling All Stations podcast, about his time in the industry which included two major accidents at Ladbroke Grove and Hatfield