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The Anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall
by Ann Cleeves This year marks the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall. According to a history written many years later, Emperor Hadrian visited Britain, one of the most...
The Terror: The Fall of the Throne and Altar
by Susan Cahill Throne and Altar, Altar and Throne. The two go together in pre-Revolution France as intimately as any two members of a royal family. Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Photo...
Faulkner the Pilot
by Taylor Brown “This was 1915 and ‘16. I had seen an aeroplane and my mind was filled with names: Ball, and Immelman and Boelcke, and Guynemer and Bishop, and I was waiting,...
Bomber Down
by Kevin Maurer Writing Damn Lucky was an amazing experience, but one of the frustrations was all the great stuff I left out because it didn’t fit into the narrative. This story...
How to Find a Lost City
by Edmund Richardson So you want to find a lost city? Congratulations: you’ve joined an exclusive and perilous club. For hundreds of years, explorers, dreamers, scholars, and...
The Winter War
by Tom Clavin Oops, Russia did it again. While that country’s historians might not be able to say so out loud, they must be appalled at the invasion of Ukraine and its thus-far...
The City Beneath the Mountains
by Edmund Richardson Beneath the plains of Afghanistan lie the remains of a fabulous city: Alexandria Beneath the Mountains, founded by Alexander the Great. For centuries, it was...