The oldest of the four is Vertex. It dates back all the way to 1912, when Claude Lyons founded the company to create reliable military timepieces. There was a long hiatus – the company ceased trading ...

It was the summer of 1940, and the vicious Nazis were seemingly closing in on the United Kingdom. The British Army was highly concerned and began looking for the most skilled men in the military ...

Adrian Carton de Wiart first saw combat with the British Army during the Boer War in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. (Wikimedia Commons) Strong of mind and body -- he once ripped apart a deck of ...

Even 80 years on, the inhumane treatment meted out to Allied captives during the Second World War by the Japanese remains ...