When Samuel D. Riddle announced in the latter part of 1920 that his superb champion Man o’ War would not race as a 4-year-old, disappointment reigned far and wide among the magnificent colt’s legions ...
From South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the ...
A British nurse who risked — and ultimately lost — her life to help British and French soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium in World War I is remembered with a Google Doodle Tuesday. Edith ...
A new book by GORDON BROWN salutes the women who've inspired him. Here, in an exclusive extract, he tells the extraordinary story of Edith Cavell, the British nurse who faced a German firing squad for ...