Highlights included the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar, the Boer War, the Battle of Britain and even the Falklands war, all despatched in a couple of minutes each.

ECONOMIST: The Empire strikes back

They've been allowed to atrophy over the last couple of decades since the end of the Cold War.

BBC: Philip Hammond with soldiers

In this gut-wrenching drama, from 1968, Ingmar Bergman stretches a classic Bergman couple on the tightening rack of war.

NEWYORKER: Shame

The effects of this price war fall disproportionately on American makers, for a couple of reasons.

ECONOMIST: Detroit's nine lives

They apply, after all, only to imports worth a couple of billion dollars last year, hardly the stuff of a great trade war.

ECONOMIST: Barack Obama and free trade

The lad was from the Pennsylvania mountains, he was accustomed to camping out, he had been there a couple of weeks, living on venison, and intended to stay until the war ended.

CNN: Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too

After paying a couple of the contested bills, Otari hunkered down into a yearlong tug-of-war with the carrier.

FORBES: Dialing for Dollars