A New Enemy By Dan Cruickshank Even with the French threat removed, Britain could not relax. Germany was now seen as the next invader and had new technologies under development. Dan Cruickshank explores the renewed potential for invasion at the end of the 19th century. A Zeppelin raid is intercepted and terminated over...
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  The Origins of World War One By Dr Gary Sheffield Was World War One a triumph of democracy over imperial expansion or an exercise in military futility? Dr Gary Sheffield examines the origins of the conflict. Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1906 Early signs in Europe In Blackadder Goes Forth, Baldrick opined that the...
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  Rome’s Greatest Enemies Gallery By Dr Peter Heather King Shapur I and the Roman emperor Valerian (kneeling) ©   Born c. 210 AD Died c. 272 AD Enemy of Rome: Persian ‘king of kings’ who destroyed three Roman armies in elevating Persia to superpower status alongside Rome. In the third engagement he captured...
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    By Dr Peter Heather Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontos ©   Born 120 BC Died 63 BC Enemy of Rome: Led the resistance of the Hellenistic East against Roman expansion in the first century BC. He spread the banner of revolt all the way to Greece until finally defeated, after three...
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