Military

Richard Normington looks into the popularity of Wargames.

James Graham-Campbell looks at the persisting image of the Vikings as pagan raiders striking at isolated Christian settlements. But is this the whole truth? And how and why did the Vikings adopt Christianity?

The dilemmas of allegiance posed for Americans by the outbreak of war with the British crown led Benedict Arnold, 'the most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army’, into the Loyalist camp.

Civil War in England brought destruction and damage in town and country far more akin to continental warfare than has often been supposed.

Julian Amery reviews a work on the rise and fall of industrial Britain.

Arthur Marwick explores two contrasting titles on the First World War.

Paul Preston follows the unsettled road leading to the clash between the Republicans and Nationalists.

Resistance to Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula gave a little-known English general a unique opportunity to remould the Portuguese army.

John Maddicott argues that Edward III's bid for glory in France was motivated by concerns about England's neighbours and trade as well as amour propre for his claim to the throne of Philip of Valois.

Franco's traditional image has been as a canny neutral in the struggle between the Allied and Axis powers. But in 1940 his aspirations for an African empire drew him to within an ace of war with Britain.