Like most mornings throughout her life of 80 years, Annie Jarvis awakened at 5 a.m. sharp, put on a pot of strong coffee, and checked the front stoop for the ...

A book which I recently read, Weep for Africa by Jeremy Hall contained his recollection of a crude act of school boarding house tomfoolery at Kearsney College in then Natal. A fellow boarder had ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines patrolled the waters of the United Kingdom watching for ships to destroy.

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the ...

In late August 1978 I was on a troop train bound for Grootfontein in Namibia on route to the Border War. I was just eighteen years old and it was a relief being out of the oppressive and abusive ...