Barbara Newman writes that the planned French invasion of England in 1386 involved ten thousand mounted knights and a hundred thousand foot soldiers (LRB, 20 March).Armies of such numbers were ...

Richard was born at Bordeaux in France on 6th January 1367, the son of Edward the 'Black Prince' (eldest son of King Edward III) and Joan, called the 'Fair Maid of Kent'.The death of his elder brother ...

Richard Barancik, last of ‘monuments men’ from World War II, dies at 98. His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in ...

World War II veteran from Olathe receives French award. From July 1944 until April 1945, Sgt. Richard Yunghans flew 25 bombing missions on the B-17 and the B-24 ...

Legacy, honor, torment, and heroism. Four words that perfectly encapsulate the mammoth undertaking that William Shakespeare undertook when he authored the history plays of Richard II, Henry IV ...

Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...

Richard Barancik belonged to a group of about 350 people whose goals, during and after World War II, ... Mr. Barancik served in England and France — where he was not on the front lines, ...