Ve day on the frontline

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

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg

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

Victoria Taylor Publisher: Head of Zeus Web: www.headofzeus.com ISBN: 9-781-8045-4999-5 Hardback: 432 pages RRP: £25.00 From the late 1970s up until the 1990s, the reviewer regularly interviewed and c