John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths – some as young as fourteen – who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors'’ popular 2013 book Old Enough t...

Prompted by the recent discovery of an impressive three-metre tall late Gothic drawing of a soaring tower and spire, this book offers a rare insight into the processes of designing and building a major gothic project. The drawing's place and date of...

In 1882 the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Prints and Drawings Museum) acquired, from the collection of the Duke of Hamilton, Sandro Botticelli's spectacular series of drawings on parchment illustrating scenes from Dante's "Divine Comedy". It also acqui...

The Shefton Collection in Newcastle upon Tyne contains a fine array of Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name from its founder Professor Brian Shefton (1919-2012). In spite of the importance of this collection it has not been widely published...

Russia's Warplanes is set to become the standard reference work on the subject. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this will serve as an exhaustive directory of the latest products of Russia's military aviation industry. As well as outli...

This work reveals one of the most important intelligence triumphs of World War II. It was no less than the capture of Japan's "Plan Z" – the Empire's fully detailed strategy for prosecuting the last stages of the Pacific War. It's a story of happenst...

John Stanhope Baines, a Winchester classical scholar and young Royal Engineers officer, was on active service in France and Salonika during the First World War. Throughout this time he wrote to his "Dearest Mother", who had studied classics at Cambri...

The Battle of Kursk, despite the seven decades that have passed since the event, continues to attract great attention even today. The combat operations, which unfolded in the summer of 1943 in the center of the Eastern Front, by their scale, the forc...

While the specificities of individual wars vary, they share a ubiquitous aftermath: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared". The Bosnian war of the early 1990s that destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia is no exception. In Working...