This is a study of the officers who were promoted to the rank of general and who were also awarded the Knight’s Cross during ...

Sir Simonds D’Ewes, a seventeenth-century gentleman bred in Dorset, but ultimately shaped by a deep and lasting love for Suffolk, was not destined for ...

Guess it wouldn’t be too far out to say that I was a pioneering author for what became the local arm of the Pen and Sword family of books. Back in the early 1980s — under the aegis of the Barnsley ...

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The movement of gold and its changing value has shaped history in ways which have been fundamental and largely unremarked. Ignoring it, we have not understood the rise and fall of cultures and ...

Battle for Monte Natale brings together contemporary accounts showing war, not only at the strategic level involving Corps, Division, Brigade, and Battalion , but also the individual level, inspiring ...

Before the Victorian era, not only was gift giving not an important part of Christmas, but gifts were exchanged on New Year’s Day. It was only when Prince Albert started his family custom of gift ...

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The battles and sieges of the Classical world have been a rich source of inspiration to film makers since the beginning of cinema and the 60s and 70s saw the golden age of the 'swords and sandals' ...

Many people will already know about of the V1 flying bomb, otherwise known as the doodlebug; it was a pilotless plane, originally launched from ramps in France. It was designed to cause maximum damage ...

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