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THE ROMAN ARMY

The legions in Britain helped Romanise the remote province and guarded its northern border

Heroes of the Medal of Honor: JAMES STOCKDALE

The highest-ranking US POW during the Vietnam War, imprisoned for nearly eight years, this air wing commander was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery and leadership while incarcerated

FALKLANDS SHORT HISTORY OF A LONG DISAGREEMENT PART 1: 1485 – 1833

For hundreds of years these South Atlantic islands have been the focus, and sideshow, of trade missions, treaties and conflicts. In this two-part series, former British Army intelligence officer and now historian Nick Van Der Bijl looks at the five centuries preceding the 1982 war

ADMIRAL YI SUN- SIN

The Korean military genius who overcame overwhelming odds to grind Japan’s samurai war machine to a halt

How Britain Became a Cultural Colossus

The secret to the nation's status as a creative superpower lies not in stability and peace but a past dominated by invasion, disruption and war

What Is Truth?

Richard Oxenberg on the need for an old paradigm, especially in ethics.

Robert Nozick's Metaverse Machine

Lorenzo Buscicchi asks, would you plug into Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual world? He finds that the question has been considered by philosophers for decades.

Smart Hub

Smart hub Design duo Formafantasma settle into a chic new live/work space in Milan cultural complex Assab One

MONGOLIAN MIGHT MEETS SAMURAI STEEL

Waves of the Khan’s forces swept across the shogunate’s lands. They were met by Japan’s outmatched yet determined and skilful warrior class

CLASH OF CULTURES: Q&A WITH JONATHAN CLEMENTS

With the Mongol way of war already a proven conquering force, the invasion of Japan was a clash of two unique warrior societies

AMERICA'S ZOUAVES

Historian and author Iain MacGregor shares his passion for the brightly uniformed infantrymen who served in the US Civil War, and interrogates some of the myths about their combat role

BATAAN DEATH MARCH

After Japan conquered the Philippines in WWII, its army inflicted one of the war’s worst atrocities on Allied POWs

THE REAL TOP GUN

From humble beginnings the US Navy Fighter Weapons School was instrumental in turning the tide of the air war over Vietnam

THE DIVINE WIND

With his invasion forces scattered by storms, the Khan planned yet another attempt to conquer Japan

TIMELINE OF THE...MONGOL INVASIONS OF JAPAN

The Mongol ruler Kublai Khan leads several attacks on the Japanese islands and is met by ferocious resistance

THE KHAN'S MARCH TO WAR

In the late 13th century, the ruler of the vast Mongol Empire set his sights east in search of new lands to conquer

PETAIN VERDUN HERO OR VICHY TRAITOR?

Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France and hero of Verdun during WWI, tarnished his reputation beyond redemption as a collaborator with the Nazis during WWII and head of the puppet Vichy government

Heroes of the Victoria Cross TUL BAHADUR PUN

In June 1944, as Allied forces began re-establishing dominance in Burma, a Gurkha Chindit stormed Japanese positions on a railway bridge to save his comrades, earning him the British Empire’s highest military honour

ECHOES OF THE PAST

THIS DISTURBING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING STUDY OF MEMORY AND LOSS SHINES A LIGHT ON A DARK CHAPTER IN GREEK HISTORY

BENEDICTION

A SOMBRE AND HEART-WRENCHING BIOPIC ABOUT THE TRAUMATISED WORLD WAR I POET SIEGFRIED SASSOON

William Wilberforce 1759-1833

Former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, chooses

JAPAN'S ROAD TO WAR

Less than a century after emerging from cultural and economic isolation, Imperial Japan’s expansion led to a confrontation with the nation that had first disturbed its solitude

THE DEMISE OF BRAVO TWO ZERO

During the 1991 Gulf War, an SAS operation in the Iraqi desert went terribly wrong

JAMES ALLEN WARD

In July 1941, 13,000ft above the Dutch coastline in a severely damaged Wellington bomber, this New Zealand airman clambered onto his aircraft’s wing to put out a fire and save his comrades

TURNING THE TIDE - Q&A WITH HISTORIAN JOHN WUKOVITS

Though Imperial Japan began on the front foot in 1941, several critical battles sealed victory for the Allies in 1945

MUSEUMS & EVENTS

Discover the Imperial War Museum’s new all-day festival, renovations happening to the Scapa Flow Museum, and Chatham Historic Dockyard’s exhibition about the wreck of HMS Invincible

FROM PEARL HARBOR TO GUADALCANAL

After the disaster in Hawaii, the US employed an island-hopping strategy in the Pacific, carefully choosing where to strike in order to suffocate Japan’s sprawling occupation of the theatre

PLATAEA

2,500 years ago an alliance of a few Greek city-states defeated the invading army of the mighty Persian empire, saving Greece and securing the future of European civilisation

HITLER'S TIGER ACE

Michael Wittmann, aka the Black Baron, was a hugely successful panzer commander and propaganda icon for the Nazis. His role in the Waffen-SS left a dark legacy

DOWNFALL - THE INVASION OF JAPAN

Without a swift end to the war in sight, the Allies planned a gruelling campaign on the Japanese home islands – a potentially costly operation avoided only by the use of nuclear weapons and Japan’s surrender