Ron Chernow confirms the Twain's literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.

Anzac Day has come and gone again. But – lest we forget – war and its consequences are not confined to single days in the ...

1835. He found, by practical experiments ... he finds of but little advantage. Moll's British patent was granted in 1836, and is the more interesting, as his process is based on the best principle ...

A ship from Bordeaux carrying the plague, lands in Melcombe Regis (now Weymouth), Dorset. 1360: The Treaty of Brétigny ...

The remains of a British soldier killed fighting in WW1 have been laid to rest – 108 years after his death. Private John Tame ...

Chris Garrett died in Ukraine, where he was clearing mines left by retreating Russians A former British soldier who travelled to Ukraine to help clear landmines has been killed in an “incident ...

It was a 'horrible, grim place which smelt terribly', said the first British soldier to enter Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker. The grimness and the stench was no surprise, given the horror of what ...

Former members of the United Kingdom’s special forces have described alleged war crimes committed by British soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq dating back over a decade. More than 30 witnesses ...