So, to quote Sir Edmund Hillary after he had reached the summit of Everest, I “have knocked the bastard off”.In my case, the Herculean achievement in question is to have finally read War and ...

BBC iPlayer is now streaming a drama deemed many people's "all-time favourite". It's based on a book that fans admire equally ...

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The newly discovered Iron Age instrument may have been played in the Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire ...

By late March of 1953, the Korean War remained mostly static as peace negotiations went back and forth. U.N. and communist ...

In 1513, a pivotal clash occurred on Flodden Field, between the armies of England and Scotland. King James iv of Scotland, ...

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On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

The 1,100-year-old burials of three elite warriors — two of whom were possibly father and son — have been discovered in ...

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Confederate forces burned Pinhook Bridge twice in 1863 during two separate Civil War battles in Lafayette. Today, most ...