Home from the Wars
Stephen Brumwell discusses attitudes towards Veterans in mid-Georgian Britain, and the provisions made for them.
Military
Falklands War Twenty Years On
Duncan Anderson reflects on the Falklands War twenty years on.
Kem's Cartoons in the Second World War
Valerie Holman describes the little-known role played by the cartoonist Kem in assisting the British propaganda effort aimed at Iran.
Warship Weeks
J.W. Bartlett on the response of the British public to government campaigns to finance ship-building during the Second World War.
The Soviet Airforce Versus The Luftwaffe
A.D. Harvey assesses the role of the Soviet Air Force in the defeat of Nazism.
The Folly of ‘Unconditional Surrender’
Was the call for the ‘unconditional surrender’ of Germany, Italy, and Japan the most ruinous Allied policy of the Second World War?
From Non-Aggression Treaty to War: Documenting Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-41
Geoffrey Roberts explains the fateful sequence of events from the Nazi-Soviet Pact to Hitler's invasion of the USSR.
Fighting the Afghans in the 19th Century
Bruce Collins considers the mixture of adventurism, disaster, and lethal reprisal that marked British activities in Afghanistan under Victoria
The C.I.A. Con-Trick
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones explains the historical roots of the arguments surrounding the CIA following their failure to anticipate the attacks of September 11th.
Spanish Civil War
Paul Preston looks at the continued interest in the 1930s conflict, the subject of a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.