Military

Len Scales considers the complex role of martial skill in the development of national identity in the Middle Ages.

Mark Rathbone compares Gladstone's and Disraeli's differing approaches to a crucial foreign policy issue.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 9th, 1854.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.

Andrew Lambert explains why Nelson’s life and death should never be forgotten.

Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.

Stephen Cullen reassesses the role of ‘Dad’s Army’.

John Spicer judges that slavery was the key factor in producing the conflict.