Normandy, North, South, East and West, has numerous war cemeteries, mostly from World War Two but also from World War One. The coastline of western Normandy, through the history of one pivotal day – D-Day June 6th 1944, has made it one of the most vi...

Since its independence in 1991, Russia has struggled with the growing pains of defining its role in international politics. After Vladimir Putin ascended to power in 2000, the country undertook grandiose foreign policy projects in an attempt to delin...

Nathan Coley is a publication documenting a public art project in London by Glasgow-based contemporary artist Nathan Coley (b. 1967). At a time when housing and the property market are at the centre of much social, political and economic debate, Cole...

One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and learned to fly at Northolt, before being posted to 33 Squad...

A new book by Charles Saatchi based on extraordinary – and amazingly – un-photoshopped images, all the more extraordinary for being real, all the more fascinating for existing without computer manipulation. Some of the 112 images are the works of art...

Originally published in 1956, former Second World War prisoner-of-war Calton Younger's No Flight from the Cage received critical acclaim. One critic wrote, "the book goes below the surface of prison camp life and shows a remarkable insight into the m...

"Needle in the Bone" highlights the astonishing stories of two Poles – a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz. As mere teenagers during World War II, they defied daunting odds, lost everything and nearl...