John Jolliffe

A Special Air Service jeep patrol is greeted by its commander David Stirling on its return from the desert in January 1943

Stirling work with the SAS

8 October 2016 9:00 am

The SAS was the first unit to be granted regimental status for generations. Its chief aim was to damage the…

Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell and the rebirth of a nation

20 February 2016 9:00 am

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The second world war — according to Stalin’s ambassador to London

12 September 2015 9:00 am

Ivan Maisky was the Russian ambassador in London from 1932 to 1943, and his knowledge of London, and affection for…

The new Imperial Royal Austrian Light Infantry c.1820

The honour of the Habsburgs was all that mattered to the imperial Austrian army

20 June 2015 9:00 am

John Keegan, perhaps the greatest British military historian of recent years, felt that the most important book (because of its…

The very model of a modern duke

4 December 2004 12:00 am

Miles Fitzalan-Howard was one of eight children of a fairly distant cousin of the previous two Dukes of Norfolk, and…

Mistress of the royal game

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Marie of Romania (1875–1938), though little known to most readers today, was probably the most dynamic and effective royal consort…

‘The only man in Paris’

28 February 2004 12:00 am

Eugenia de Montijo was born in a tent, during an earthquake, in Granada in 1826. Her father, a Liberal minor…

The third man

11 January 2003 12:00 am

In the 1840s and 50s, Douglas Jerrold, Dickens and Thackeray were the three best known literary men in England, and…

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