evacuation

The danger of becoming a ‘professional survivor’

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Though extraordinarily lucky to have escaped massacre in Rwanda in 1994, all Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse now seems to focus on is finding photographic evidence of her rescue

Why was the British army so ill-prepared to fight the second world war?

13 January 2024 9:00 am

After 1918, the general staff ceased to focus on who they might have to fight next and how, leading to the abysmal performance of the army in Norway and France in 1940