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We all know about the Home Guard - affectionately known as the "Dad's Army" - an army of almost two MILLION civilian soldiers, many of them too old to join the regular army, ready to defend Britain at home. In the event of a German invasion of Britain, they were to fight, as best they could, the...

Through Helmand desert with the Dragoons By Tom Coghlan 16/04/2007 The Telegraph Tom Coghlan, our reporter in Afghanistan, spent two weeks with the Light Dragoons in Helmand province, in the volatile south of the country. Here he gives an account of their experiences, their fears, the...

Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789 The Mutiny on the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, 1789 Back in the 1930’s a blockbuster movie was made which reappears almost every year on the Christmas TV schedule. It tells the tale, which is in fact a true story, about a famous mutiny that took place in 1789 on...

Two British military personnel have been killed in Iraq as two RAF helicpoters collided. That brings the British death toll in Iraq to 142. Two die as UK helicopters crash RAF Benson Two British helicopters have crashed in Iraq, killing two military personnel and seriously injuring...

By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer Wars and weather have left few scars on Paris' Arc de Triomphe. Commissioned by Napoleon to celebrate his victories, the 15-story tower of bone-white stone stands as an eternal monument to French glory, a time when Europe trembled before this...

As Continental Europe's heavy-handed police attacked Tottenham fans at the Seville game and Manchester United fans at the Roma game - even though the opposition fans who were left untouched by the police were the ones to blame for the troubles, especially Roma's notorious Ultras (their hooligan...

The British Army is to double the number of snipers it has - and also to increase their skill and power. The British Army super snipers who will target terrorists ... from three-quarters of a mile By CHRISTOPHER LEAKE 14th April 2007 The British Army is creating a new breed of...

Irish angler uses Magna Carta on landowner By Tom Peterkin, Ireland Correspondent The Telegraph 14/04/2007 Magna Carta, dating from 1215 and signed by King John, is a part of Britain's "unwritten" constitution The Duke of Devonshire's ownership of Ireland's most prolific salmon river is...

Iraq War The Battle of Shia Flats: The British get revenge for the killing of their comrades on Thursday... 20 Shia gunmen die in British Basra fightback The Telegraph By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent 13/04/2007 British forces have hit back at Iraqi insurgents who killed six...

For a proud military nation, the British love their military heroes. Except, that is, for the Left-Wing BBC.... A real hero is too much for the BBC By Andrew Pierce 14/04/2007 The Telegraph True British hero: Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry VC won the Victoria Cross for extreme...

The wives who went to war By TREVOR GROVE Daily Mail 14th April 2007 They gave birth in holes in the frozen ground. Some turned to drink, others to prostitution. A new book uncovers the terrible suffering of the women who followed their menfolk of the British Army to the Crimean War 1854 -...

Breaking news this morning: Prince William and Kate Middleton have split up, meaning that Kate isn't going to be the future Queen. And the souvenir mugs and plates that have been made to celebrate their "impending" engaging have gone to waste: It's over: Kate and William split 14th April 2007...

No more Pax Americana David Selbourne The Spectator (London) The current position of George Bush and the United States is similar to that of King George III - the United States' last monarch - and Great Britain in the 1770s and 1780s. Although, of course, the Pax Britannica lasted almost...

One of Britain's greatest WW2 flying aces dies after one last flight with his wife 13th April 2007 Daily Mail An RAF Spitfire (left) battles with a Luftwaffe plane over the White Cliffs of Dover during the Battle of Britain, an aerial battle fought over South East England between July 1940...

Economics made easy Can Sarko halt France’s decline? THE SPECTATOR Allister Heath The French like to claim that there is one thing in which its economy outperforms that of Britain: productivity. However, as Allister Heath reveals, France's productivity figures can be misleading...

J'Accuse! Top General lambasts 'moral cowardice' of government and military chiefs by SARAH SANDS 13th April 2007 How have we come to this? The released Navy captives whimpering about losing an iPod and unsightly insect bites. The Defence Secretary Des Browne clinging to office as...

Troops to get 'sniper' system 12th April 2007 British troops in Afghanistan are to be equipped with a new rocket system designed to target Taliban strongholds with pin-point accuracy, the Ministry of Defence has said. The Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) has successfully...

Fallen Brits are back home Sad task ... comrades of dead soldiers carry one of the coffins draped in Union Jack as bodies of soldiers (l-r) Private Dlugosz, Lieutenant Dyer, Kingsman Smith and Corporal O'Neill are flown home By LUCY WATERLOW April 12, 2007 THE bodies of four brave...

The 'superpower lite' punching above its weight By Con Coughlin Daily Telegraph 12/04/2007 Britain should never have gone to war in Iraq, should abandon its nuclear deterrent and should engage with states that openly support and sponsor international terrorism. In other words...

Manchester United showed Roma's hooligan Ultra fans what for last night - destroying their team 7-1, United's biggest win in Europe since 1968. It finished as an 8-3 aggregate win. Chelsea completed what is probably the greatest night for a long time for English football - the Londoners...