Author: E C Coleman

Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships th...

In early 1918, it seemed to many that the British people and the Allies were close to defeat. At home, the chief culprit was the German U-boat. Sai...

This is the history of that most sacred vessel that is named by men the Holy Grail, wherein the precious blood of Our Saviour was received on the d...

This is the story of a plain silver chalice from the first century AD that now rests in the heart of England. From its momentous beginnings as the ...

With a plot to grace any comic opera, the 1859-72 ''Pig War'' broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of G...

With the exception of the royal marines, who adopted light infantry rank insignia from their earliest days, the Royal Navy was slow to introduce di...