At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ross Smith had broken the England-Australia aero record in a Vickers Vimy, Roly Alderson decided that he wanted to fly. Denied a secondary education, orphan ...

In almost forty years in Asia without a home posting, British officer John Cross spent ten of them ‘under the jungle canopy’.

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Norman Ridley, author of Spying for Hitler, which is available now, reveals the fascinating story of how the Nazis’ Ludwig Spy Ring was uncovered just before the United States entered the Second World ...

The former Great Eastern Railway was at one time seen as a rather dull sleepy railway in the eastern corner of England whose principal traffic was London commuters, holiday makers to the Essex, ...

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The origin of Pen and Sword Books is closely linked with its sister company, the Barnsley Chronicle; one of the UK's oldest provincial newspapers – established in 1858 – and one of the few weeklies ...

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Sixty million years ago, an asteroid between ten and fifteen kilometres wide struck the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Central America at a speed of around thirty kilometres per second and caused an ...