Reginald Teague-Jones

Thrilling tales of British pluck

25 October 2025 9:00 am

Few stirring stories compare with the six-week long Battle of Baku against the Ottomans – arguably the least remembered engagement of the first world war

Isaak Israelevich Brodsky’s depiction of the execution of the ‘26 Martyrs’, painted in 1925 and already the stuff of Soviet legend

The man who disappeared

21 February 2015 9:00 am

In the pre-dawn hours of 20 September 1918, a train, its headlamp off, heading eastwards out of Kransnovodsk on the…