Military

Michael Paris describes the film record of the North African victory, and how the footage represents a tour de force in terms of wartime documentary and national effort.

Peter Anderson compares the tactics and resources of the two sides.

Paul Dukes analyses a number of books on the conflict.

Mike Finn looks at the Liverpool press to find out what people back home were told about conditions on the Western Front.

William Clarance explores the origins and complexities of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Sebastian Balfour recalls the use and effects of chemical warfare during, and after, the early decades of the twentieth century.

Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.

Leslie Marchant sees the Opium Wars as a philosophical clash between two cultures and two notions of government and society.

On May 31st, 1902, the Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending the Second Boer War between Britain and the two Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

Mark Weisenmiller shows how the fate of Al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in Cuba is linked to a US Supreme Court decision of sixty years ago.