In January 1879, a British Army column marched from Natal into Zululand, its objective: the capital of Ulundi. Armed with quick-firing Martini-henry rifles and seven-pounder field guns, the British were justifiably confident that they...
CLIVE WEBB In the precarious years of the 1930s, the spectre of fascism spread across the Atlantic and took aim at US democracy. Over on page 34 Clive recounts the chilling rise and fall of the German American Bund. PETER CADDICK-ADAMS In the...
During the 1930s, the German-american Bund sought to take down US Democracy from within In the darkest years of the Great Depression, America’s self-assurance about the strength of its democracy began to fray. The precariousness of the...
Peter Caddick-adams concludes his two-part series on the critical 1915 Shells Crisis In the spring of 1915 Winston Churchill’s Admiralty had received permission to initiate the Gallipoli operation, where his battleships (initially loaded...
In the Spanish Civil War, many foreigners signed up to fight for the Republicans, and the Nationalists In July 1936 a group of generals attempted to overthrow Spain’s Popular Front government. It was the climax to years of often...
