“The civilian public was shocked to learn that GIs, sailors and marines fighting the Japanese were collecting and trading the ears, teeth and heads of enemy dead.” IN THE spring of 1944, Life magazine ran…

While it’s certainly not one of the biggest mysteries of the Second World War, identifying the owner of a decaying wallet recovered from the crash site of a Wellington bomber certainly was important to one…

They survived centuries of encounters on history’s deadliest battlefields, but Scottish regiments like the Black Watch and the Royal Highland Fusiliers may not be able to withstand the latest round of government budget cuts. According…

IT WAS JUST after 1:30 p.m. on May 7, 1915 when the lookouts aboard U-20, a German submarine operating 14 miles off the coast of south-western Ireland, spied a tempting target: the RMS Lusitania, a 31,500 ton British passenger…