Kyiv’s Book Arsenal drew crowds, military writers, and Zelensky. A canceled novel stirred censorship debate, highlighting rising civil control in Ukraine’s book market.

She went to the Crimean War to nurse wounded soldiers. She became known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ . Florence Nightingale is remembered for showing people that nursing was a very important job.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. War stories usually remember men fighting battles but there are also brave women in wars like Mary Seacole. Mary ...

“They all had standard, Union buttons, plus shoulder buttons most Civil War uniforms didn’t have. One soldier wore a canvas-topped, baseball shoe, so we thought it was a city unit.