The Cuban Missile Crisis - 30 years on
Brian Dooley assesses the incident which brought the world perilously close to nuclear war.
Military
The Dieppe Raid: Triumph out of Disaster
The 1942 Allied raid on Nazi-occupied France and its lessons for D-Day.
German Cartoons of the First World War
Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World War.
'The White Man's Burden'? Imperial Wars in the 1890s
Lawrence James looks at the melange of racial theory, economic interest and Boys' Own 'derring-do' that fuelled European ambitions for a 'place in the sun'.
Propaganda in the Wars of the Roses
Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties
Britain and the European Army
As discussion grows about defence post Cold War, Martin Dedman and Clive Fleay look at an abortive 1950s plan for a 'European Army'.
War and the English Gentry Under Edward III
Andrew Ayton analyses why Englishmen went off to fight in France in the Hundred Years' War, and elsewhere.
Emperor Hirohito’s War
What did Hirohito really think of the Second World War? After his death, diaries and memoirs from the Shōwa emperor’s court began to shed light on his role in the conflict.
Summing Up The Somme
Lions led by donkeys? Britain's most traumatic land offensive of the First World War drew to its conclusion in November 1916. Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior reassess the campaign, the wisdom of its strategy and tactics, and the reputation of its C-in-C, Douglas Haig.
St. Helena Honours Boer War Prisoners
Rosemary Laurent discovers a British outpost in the south Atlantic.