In the second part of our series marking the 80th anniversary of the last months of World War II, Taylor Downing asks why crossing the Rhine in March 1945 was not the great obstacle that Allied commanders feared.
In the second part of our series on Napoleon’s rise and fall, Graham Goodlad analyses his extraordinary run of military successes in the decade between 1800 and 1810.
Neil Faulkner analyses one of the Second World War’s most curiously asymmetrical battles.
Naval historian and museum curator Nick Hewitt explores a little-known British disaster of the Second World War.