Max Boot is a historian and biographer, best-selling author, and foreign-policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign ...

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Now that the colder months have set in, a faithful pair of boots (alongside a snug set of slippers and some thick wool socks) can help make life far more bearable. Here, I’ve rounded up the best ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

The 26th Battalion was raised at Enoggera, Queensland, in April 1915 from recruits enlisted in Queensland and Tasmania, and formed part of the 7th Brigade. It left Australia in July, and, after ...

Since they were invented in 1891, Swiss Army Knives have been essential tools for people from different walks of life. Whether you're a soldier on the battlefield or an ordinary person confronted ...

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...

Grandson to Queen Victoria, the old-fashioned but popular King George V, who reigned over an empire from which the sun never set, had a dark side to his personality that today would make him the most ...

However, technology had come a long way from just a few decades prior, when, during WWI, military aircraft were in their infancy and the entire idea ... Martin Company, following a contract order made ...

In the early morning hours of July 19, 1918, 19-year-old bugler Frank Charles Fergus was serving in the Army in France with the 58th Infantry Regiment in the first days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive.

An Israeli man said he and his family were kicked out of a luxury hotel in Switzerland by a manager who told them to leave because they’re Jews. The hotel rejected the allegations. The Israeli ...

A Swiss police officer handling a call to evict Yaniv Bender and his family from a hotel in Arosa on Jan. 14, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Yaniv Bender. Arosa and other Swiss resorts have some haredi ...