Author: John Sadler

In the 18th century in the town of Gorkha, just north of Kathmandu, ruler Prithvi Narayan fought campaigns against his neighbours and the British. ...

Flodden , September 1513. Across a boggy valley, two armies confront each other. The Scots, backed by European allies, have superior numbers and th...

The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNPs call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit - and indeed Brexit itself - beg...

Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literat...

D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, began on the night of 5-6 June 1944. At 07.00 hours on the 6th, Britain's First Corps and XXX Corps came asho...

The epic battle in Egypt between Britain's 'Desert Rats' and the Axis forces led by Rommel, the 'Desert Fox'. On the night of 23 October 1942 Briti...

The Second World War (193945) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any rags of glory...

The Great War 19141918 was dubbed the war to end all wars and introduced the full flowering of industrial warfare to the world. The huge enthusiasm...

Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As ...

The origins of most of the wests Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group which operated across the limitless expanses of t...

On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded...

On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy - better known as Hotspur - led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle ...

For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country c...

The Little Book of Newcastle is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which...