Military

John Dunne follows historians along the trail signposted by Geyl fifty years ago.

Robert Pearce distributes a survival kit for the most hazardous causation question of all.

Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind: his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe.

The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.

Previewing his forthcoming biography, Robert Knecht argues that recent whitewash has failed to cover guilty blood.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 19th, 1796

Frank McDonough looks at recent thinking on the origins of the war of 1899-1902

Raphael Mokades - the winner of the 1996 Julia Wood Award - argues that military failure in the Boer War transformed political attitudes in Edwardian Britain.

The Eternal City was captured after a year-long siege on December 17th, 546.

Vasily Andreev on how far War (and the fear of it) has fuelled innovation this century.