It was a spectacular win for the young English King Henry V on St. Crispin’s Day 1415. And everybody loves to see a win for ...

the opening act of the Hundred Years’ War. At first, the English armies won significant battles under the command of Edward III’s son Edward the Black Prince. But the English strength faltered ...

For millennia, brutal acts of mass violence against enemy soldiers and civilians were commonplace. Here the editors consider 11 troubling case studies of such extreme violence by English and British ...