Soon after the outbreak of World War I – he was then in his 50th year – he enlisted as a volunteer. Leaving behind his Jewish wife, Hannah, and their only daughter, Bertha, he became the military head ...

On January 9, 1916, the disastrous and costly Allied campaign at Gallipoli came to an end as the final British and French troops evacuated the area. At least 3,000 Irishmen, and even as many as ...

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

A prize signature for a modern Welsh autograph book may be Gareth Bale or Michael Sheen, but for one teenager during World ...

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.

Samuel Gartland is Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History and Culture at the University of Leeds. Robin Osborne is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge. Reassessing the ...