History

Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often, it is seen as heading for either disaster ...

In this state of mind, which excludes any falsehood, I declare that not a single word of what I have written in my diaries is false or exaggerated ...

Total Espionage was first published shortly before Pearl Harbor and is fresh in its style, retaining immediacy unpolluted by the knowledge of subse...

This is the culmination of years of research into the lives of Scots who were guilty of dastardly deeds after leaving Scotland for America - in som...

Air battles over Germany were becoming intense and complex by the Autumn/Winter of 1942. There was deep concern about the escalating losses of RAF ...

For over sixty years the state of Israel has proved adept at practising clandestine diplomacy - - about which little is known, as one might expect....

An insiders view of Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, and Mussolini.In the years before World War II, Eugen Dollmann arrived in Rome on a scholarship, int...

The Kursk campaign was the major German offensive of 1943 and the last strategic offensive the Germans were to launch on the Eastern Front in World...

There is a widespread belief that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are in many respects synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwi...

Africa has an immensely rich culinary history and a huge variety of foodstuffs is consumed there, reflecting the myriad influences that have shaped...

'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Job...

During the dark days of 1940, when Britain faced the might of Hitler's armed forces alone, the RAF played an integral role in winning the Battle of...