In January 2024, British Chief of the General Staff Gen. Sir Patrick Sanders warned that British youth were now part of a “pre-war” generation. Pointing to the threat from Russia, he drew a direct ...

While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the British, especially as scouts to track down ...

Queen Elizabeth was the first female member of the royal family to serve in uniform A young Princess Elizabeth was 13 years old in September 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, triggering a ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Adrian Carton de Wiart was struggling academically. While considering whether to continue pursuing a law degree at the University of Oxford, he desperately sought ...

Fransjohan Pretorius receives funding from the National Research Foundation.. More than a century after 48 000 people died in concentration camps in what’s known as the South African War between 1899 ...