With his kilt proving his proud Scottish ancestry, the diminutive Lieutenant-Colonel 'Mad Mitch' Mitchell was the hero of the 'last battle of the British Empire'. Following Britain's air strikes ...

The Reckoning, Phil Craig presents a powerful and nuanced account of the climactic final year of World War II, focusing not ...

Only the British empire was expected to survive as the ... and economic reasons World War II would always have sounded the death knell of the European imperial system. Some British historians ...

At the height of that empire after the First World War ... and then exploited for their labor on these different plantations. After World War II, there’s a movement called Mau Mau, which ...

Elizabeth II, the long-reigning British queen who buoyed a shrinking ... figure who served as a living link to the glories of World War II Britain, presided over its fitful adjustment to a post ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire “Queen Elizabeth was a life ...