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Digger History	Best site describing the "unofficial history of the Australian &New Zealand Armed Services"

Honours, Flags and Heritage Structure of the Dominion of Canada	Produced by Canadian Ministry of Defence

Are we reliving the move to Great War?	No analogy is perfect, but this one feels pretty convincing. America is playing the role of Britain and France, China is being cast in the role of Germany, and India gets to play Russia. We have seen this movie before..

The Undying Glory of the British Empire	The key regional players in almost every corner of the globe areBritish-derived -- South Africa, India -- and, even among the lesser players, as a general rule you're better off for having been exposed to British rule than not...

A less ideological Chinese text puts Mao in his place	When high school students in Shanghai crack open their history textbooks this fall, they may be in for a surprise. The new standard world history text drops wars, dynasties and Communist revolutions...

China: The Revolutionary Myth	So here we are again, with the Chinese Communist regime taking credit for all the improvements in China since they won the civil war in 1949...

THE GREAT WAVE	SO insular was Japan during the two and a half centuries of theTokugawa shogunate that leaving the country was a crime punishable by death. Merchants from China and the Netherlands, the only two countries with trading rights, were confined to a single isl

The decline of the West	Huntington shows an impressive grasp of the current events and trends in countries around the globe, but gives short shift to the Jews

Television excites interest - the rest is up to the teachers	The purpose of television history is to entertain, educate and excite. If it can throw some intelligent light on the past through an engaging narrative while encouraging viewers to think more deeply about the subject, it's doing the job.

Mussolini- A Truly Wonderful Man	Tobias Jones is deeply suspicious of Nicholas Farrell's attemptto rehabilitate Mussolini

History on TV a mixed blessing, say academics	The boom in history programmes on television is undermining university study by encouraging students to believe that the subject is an exercise in storytelling rather than a rigorous intellectual discipline, academics complain today.

Stalin: the court of the red Tsar	Boots, billiards, babies on his knee. Robert Service on the domestic banalities revealed by Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of Joseph Stalin