The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger looks above decks for the story of the modern ...
From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...
To this day, when I remember my grandfather's funeral - now exactly 60 years ago - the hairs still stand up on the back of my ...
The Senior Rates and Warrant Officer's Mess was filled with sailors and civilians from ... Kim joined as a ‘wren’ (a member of the Women’s Royal Navy Service) in 1978, training as a writer ...
The Princess of Wales shared a fascinating insight into where she keeps her children's old clothes during her outing in Wales ...
THE man who created an electric food mixer that became a must-have item for modern cooks was once dubbed Britain’s youngest ...
The discovery that scurvy, a debilitating illness caused by vitamin C deficiency, could be treated with citrus fruit ...
However, it took about 50 years for the Royal Navy to begin issuing lemon juice to its ships as a measure to prevent scurvy, under a policy adopted in 1795. By the 19th century, British sailors ...
When Allied forces landed on the Italian coast at Anzio 81 years ago, they began a four-month battle that left some 7,000 of ...
President Woodrow Wilson is known for showing Birth of a Nation in the White House and leading the Second Wave of the Ku Klux ...
The Navy says two sailors were operating a rigid-hull inflatable boat in the harbour when it capsized in the Bedford Basin as ...