During the stand-off between federal agents and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993, people gathered on a hill roughly three miles away to see what was happening at the compound.

America had a front-row seat to the bizarre 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidians cult compound; it culminated in a fatal fire that killed 76 people and was later dubbed the Waco Massacre.

What happened at Waco was a shock to everyone: not least the British government of the time. Despite so many Britons being inside the compound, the Foreign Office was not kept abreast of the FBI ...

It may have been 30 years since the Branch Davidians’ religious compound burned to the ground in Waco, but that doesn’t mean Americans have lost their fascination with the iconic apocalyptic ...