Military

Warship Weeks

J.W. Bartlett on the response of the British public to government campaigns to finance ship-building during the Second World War.

The C.I.A. Con-Trick

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones explains the historical roots of the arguments surrounding the CIA following their failure to anticipate the attacks of September 11th.

Spanish Civil War

Paul Preston looks at the continued interest in the 1930s conflict, the subject of a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.

An Economy Geared to War

Richard Overy argues that the lesson Hitler Drew from 1914-18 was not that a major war should be avoided, but that Germany should prepare more systematically so that, next time, she would win.

The Thirty Years' War

Graham Darby examines the nature and effects of the war that dominated the first half of the 17th century.