History

The story of Simon, the ship's cat of HMS Amethyst, whose miraculous survival under fire lifted the crew's shattered mor...

A cat, a bear, a football match: the small things that shape a nation's morale in wartime. This is not a game — it is fu...

Sgt. Bill the goat, Siwash the duck, Reckless the mare, Nemo the dog: animals decorated for saving soldiers, while the h...

Egypt under the Hyksos faced the first tank in history. The story of King Seqenenre Tao, the war chariot that broke the...

Egypt's ancient Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance branch captures a Hyksos war chariot, engineers a lighter, fast...

Betrayed by his own adviser Phanes, Egypt falls to Cambyses II of Persia — until a real omen, the birth of the Apis bull...

With an Egyptian plan Themistocles wins at Marathon, a revolt in Egypt buys Greece time to unite, and Alexander the Grea...

In 1365 the Cypriot king Pierre de Lusignan sacked Alexandria by surprise; Egypt's Mamluk sultan Barsbay later took his...

Selim I used treachery to bring down the Mamluks, while Sheikh Hammam and later Ibrahim Pasha rose against Ottoman rule;...

Ibrahim Pasha turns an Ottoman ambush in the Belen passes into a rout with a counter-intelligence masterstroke, then mar...

After crushing the Ottomans at Nizip, Egypt's intelligence machine meets its match: Sarah Aaronsohn's Nili network feeds...

Richard Sorge's Ramzay network warns Stalin of Operation Barbarossa and that Japan will not fight — warnings ignored unt...