How the Yom Kippur war almost became a superpower conflict - fuelled by drugs and drink.

Ugh!

Incredible visualisation of war and peace. More on http://www.fallen.io/ww2/

70 years on!

Afghanistan, Britain and Ireland in the 19th century.

Re the proposed 1945 US land invasion of Japan: "The Military was so certain things were about to go very badly for U.S. soldiers that 500,000 Purple Hearts were made in preparation, a number so large that the medals have been used to supply every single war since, including Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I and Iraq II, with about 100,000 still left ov…

Brilliant on-line atlas of the history of war.