In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests …
Read MorePaul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was despatched to Northern Ireland. His top-secret mission: to execute unarmed IR…
Read MoreThis history examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context. One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the…
Read MoreThere are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work for companies with exotic and ominous-sounding names, like Crescent Security Group, Triple Can…
Read MoreThis personal account of Terry O'Farrell's career as a SAS soldier vividly captures not only the military actions of his time in Vietnam, but the hum…
Read MoreOn September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The…
Read MoreTo this day, the belief is widespread that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined, and t…
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