ANOTHER ALEXANDER: THE "ANABASIS" OF ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT Colin Liddell August 17, 2025 0 Everybody knows about the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great, but few know of a military expedition that echoed it in man... Read more »
LENIN IN 1920 AS SEEN BY BERTRAND RUSSELL Colin Liddell July 05, 2025 0 "willing to inflict widespread misery" In 1920 the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, who believed himself a ... Read more »
WHO DID WORSE AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN 1942, THE BRITISH OR THE AMERICANS? Colin Liddell January 09, 2025 0 The Fall of Singapore is often presented as the "death knell" of the British Empire, as a cataclysmic and humiliating event that e... Read more »
THE REAL REASON THE BRITISH EMPIRE FELL Colin Liddell November 20, 2024 0 Why did the British Empire fall? Was it because Churchill threw it all away by standing up to Hitler's aggression or was it part of a ... Read more »
OCTOBER 23rd, 1983: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Colin Liddell September 09, 2024 0 US Empire RIP 1983 The minimum requirement for any empire is simple. It is power projection with "boots on the ground" a long way ... Read more »
HOW THE BRITISH BEAT NAPOLEON'S ARMIES Colin Liddell August 20, 2024 0 YouTube historian A Time of Eagles dismisses the usual myths used to explain British success in the Napoleonic Wars and focuses on the rea... Read more »
HITLER AND MANNERHEIM IN CONVERSATION Colin Liddell February 08, 2024 0 There are few recordings of Hitler talking in his normal voice. Indeed I only know of one, which is a conversation he had with The Finnish l... Read more »