PERHAPS half of a soldier’s time on leave is devoted to the somewhat irritating task of explaining what the decorations clipped and sewn to his uniform mean. Many a mother whose son has come home from ...

THE only kind of rifle I had ever held, before my superiors at Camp Croft, South Carolina, pressed one into my nervous hands and urged me to treat it as lovingly as I would a small and helpless child, ...

Up the road from Buckingham Palace, two dozen of the Welsh Guards’ finest are rehearsing with gusto. From piccolo player to ...