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Crimes That Made the Modern World
Britain's Forgotten Wars
For Britain the nineteenth century began, in military terms, with the global upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and ended with a 'modern' conflict in which machine-guns and a …
Robert Tressell - A Life in Hell
The Wild East
The scene was set for a classic Western showdown. On a dusty main street, a sheriff backed by townspeople faced down a gang of heavily armed hired gunslingers. Tension rose, hard …
Fortress Britain
As Stuart Laycock’s book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: and the Few We Never got Round to shows, the British have not been backward in coming forward when it comes to …
The Sword and the Sketch Book
Victoria's long and illustrious reign saw Britain ruling the world's biggest Empire - but it came at a heavy cost. A myth has grown up that apart from involvement in the Crimean, a …