The Germans advanced and the French retreated, leaving 70,000 British soldiers facing 160,000 Germans. To cover the French ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

Alongside the starving inhabitants, their European uniforms inadequate to the December cold, the British military looked more like medieval peasants than a triumphant force. "Our guards ...