U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bettmann Archive—Getty Images President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is commonly ...

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst's "Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914" sets itself a deceptively narrow task: to tell the story of the First World War’s outbreak through ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World War. Its catalysts were so trivial and its consequences so apocalyptic that ...

Towards the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945, the United States of America could not wait enough to launch itself on the world. Indeed, a few years earlier, on December 7, 1941, America had ...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...

At their last meeting SI Cannock welcomed the inspirational Gary Fear who since the outbreak of war in Ukraine has made 12 ...