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Verdun, 1916, painted in 1917 by Felix Vallotton Credit: Heritage Images Of the 764,000 British soldiers who died in the Great War, 85 per cent fell on the Western Front, the line of trenches that ran from the North Sea coast of Belgium to the Swiss border. In this authoritative and fast-paced book, Nick Lloyd, whose 2017 Passchendaele established him at the forefront of the younger generation of military historians, deals with the 51 months during which the Germans fought the Allied powers the...

VICTORIA ROAD was once a well-to-do sort of a place, with terraces of large late Victorian townhouses and even the odd villa. Now, the dual carriageways blast through, taking traffic around Darlington town centre, and its south side has been torn down and replaced by a Sainsbury’s supermarket. The supermarket is on the site of an 1825 mansion, Beechwood, which had splendid gardens and was lived in by various members of the leading Quaker families. Parcels of land on its fringes were sol...

Chors, Fasaadis and Haramzaadas: India’s medieval Jat insurrectionaries seem strangely familiar today The past helps illuminate the present, offering insight, for those who care for it, into how this crisis came about, and where it might head Praveen Swami February 09, 2021 10:26:22 IST Representational image. AP The savage tide of rage broke through the great bronze gat...

February 5, 2021 24 Minutes This is the second part of a three part (I, II) discussion of the idea of a ‘universal warrior’ – the assumption that there is a transcendent sameness about either the experience of war or ‘warrior values’ which might provide some sort of fundamental truth for understanding war, either in the past or present, or else a useful blueprint for current life more generally. In investigating this question, we are using Steven Pressfield’s recent video s...