Historians have often stressed the modernity of America’s Civil War. Yet Gervase Phillips argues that the dependence on often weary, sickly horses on both sides in the war had a significant impact on the development, and final outcome of, the struggle.
Geoffrey Best considers Winston Churchill’s growing alarm about the possibility of nuclear war, and his efforts to ensure that its horrors never happened.
Robert Johnson puts the decline of a once-great Empire into an international context.
How the North won the American Civil War.
Stephen Roberts explodes a popular historical over-simplification.
Colin Seymour-Ure commends a unique record of World War II.
Julius Caesar first landed in Britain on August 26th, 55 BC, but it was almost another hundred years before the Romans actually conquered Britain in AD 43.
David Welch looks at the way that public art was used in both France and Britain to celebrate Napoleon and Nelson as national heroes, during their lifetimes and after.
Lawrence Freedman describes how he came to write the official history of the Falklands campaign and tells us what he learned from the experience.
