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By Massimo Predonzani
I am Massimo Predonzani, an Italian artist, art teacher, and illustrator. For over twenty years, I have been dedicated to the study and research of the history of the Italian Wars of the 15th and 16th centuries. I have published eight books to date with various publishers, including Il Cerchio (Rimini), Acies Edizioni (Milan), and the French publishin...
By Philippe Richardot
The major geopolitical features of the Mediterranean today and most of today’s great European nations were forged in iron and fire in the 5th and 6th centuries. At the heart of the battles where Antiquity died and the Middle Ages dawned, the imperial army was led from Constantinople, or in other words, Byzantium. Very Late Roman Army or brand new Byza...
By Mark Harris
The captain of Bayan was just finishing his lunch:
… I was already leaving to go up to the bridge, when suddenly I heard the signalman cry out, ‘Pallada exploded!’ I was on the bridge in less than two seconds, and the following picture presented itself to me: instead of Pallada, there was a huge column of smoke with a cap...
When people picture the nuclear standoff of the Cold War, they usually imagine missile silos, long-range bombers, or the nightmare of intercontinental ballistic missiles arcing over the poles. But another, lesser-known front existed far from the headlines — a hidden contest fought in the deep oceans, where submarines carried weapons powerful enough to end civilisation in minu...
By Fergus Cannan-Braniff
‘Am I politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel?’
– Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
On the rare occasions that they are examined by historians, galloglass are usually called ‘mercenaries’. While the description is truthful up to a point, it is a long way from the whole truth. Write my new book for Helion, I have...
