johnshaplin

The common sense position on the anticipatory nature of Science Fiction as a genre is what we would call a representational one. These na...

  Winston Churchill wrote a book about the eastern front in the First World War. He dedicated it to the Tsarist army and titled it ‘The Un...

  A few weeks ago,​ a man appeared in my front garden as I was trimming the hedge. Slight in stature, in his early twenties with short dar...

  Impressive as the Austerlitz campaign had been, Napoleon’s most spectacularly crushing victory came a year later, against a different en...