Military

John Adamson argues that the importance of the Celtic fringe in the events of the 1640s has been exaggerated.

Brian Catchpole remembers the sufferings and heroism of the Commonwealth Division in the first major conflict of the Cold War.

Taylor Downing introduces one of the most ambitious television history series of recent years, financed by Turner Broadcasting.

Jeremy Black investigates one of the key questions in human history.  

A new military technology was used by Britain in the massacre of the army of Sudanese Dervishes, near Omdurman on 2 September 1898.

Graham Darby provides a timely reconsideration of why the conflict went on for so long and why the Central Powers lost.

The image of the American Civil War as a ‘white man’s fight’ became the national norm almost as soon as the last shot was fired. Susan-Mary Grant looks at the experience and legacy of the conflict for black Americans.

Controversy has raged about Hitler's military and economic preparations for war. Did he intend a world war or a series of short conflicts? Richard Overy argues that Hitler drew the lesson from 1914-18 not that a major war should be avoided but that Germany should prepare more systematically so that, this time, she would win.

Edited by Peter Alter.