First published in 1983, An Orderly Man is volume three of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirsAfter
completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat ...
With the ending of the Cold War (1946-1991), the B-52's traditional combat role became redundant,
and the USAF looked for new ways to use the machine. The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in August 1990 gave the B-52 the chance ...
A highly illustrated account of how the Roman legions crossed the sea to conquer Britannia
in AD 43.For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilization had flourished. Britannia was felt to ...
In 1939, with the threat of war in Europe growing by the day, the US
Army Air Corps brass demanded a modern fighter that would combine the sterling handling qualities of the P-36 with a boost in performance that would ...
The period from the 12th century onward saw vast changes in every aspect of life
on both the Greek mainland and islands, as monarchies disappeared to be replaced by aristocratic rule and finally by the development of a new form ...
Gargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a
building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water spouts were often richly decorated, and fashioned as serpents' heads and other fanciful shapes. Today, the term ...
Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army during World War II even though
his actual job title varied from day to day. Serving as a senior General Staff representative from the Stavka, Zhukov moved from one critical sector ...
Grumman's successor to the pugnacious Wildcat, the Hellcat embodied many of the lessons learnt by
F4F pilots in the opening months of the Pacific war. Introduced to the fleet in January 1943, and blooded in combat against the Japanese by ...