Military

Richard Cavendish remembers the birth of Birth of the First Earl of Clarendon on February 18, 1609. 

Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

Clive Pearson assesses the Soviet dictator’s war record.

Michael Morrogh shows that Renaissance men like Sir Walter Ralegh had a decidedly darker side.

The head of Japan's Second World War government was executed on Dec 23rd, 1948

Tony Chafer examines the paradoxes and complexities that underlie belated recognition of the contribution of African soldiers to the liberation of France in 1944.

Alan Sharp looks at the factors shaping national policies in the weeks preceding the Paris Peace Conference, when the failure of the victorious allies to agree on aims and a process for negotiations with the Germans resulted in a ‘tragedy of disappointment’.

Mark Bryant examines the wartime work of Osbert Lancaster, the centenary of whose birth this year is marked with a new exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London.

Elizabeth Stephens examines how the surprise invasion of Israel by Egypt and its allies started the process that led to Camp David.

Viv Sanders takes issue with some all too common assumptions.