The case was found by family members looking for a photo A silver cigarette case believed to have saved a soldier's life by blocking a bullet during World War One is to be auctioned. The case had ...

These two cigarette cases were gifts between a pilot and Amy Johnson, the famous aviatrix who was born in Hull, UK. They belonged to the contributor's grandfather. He gave one of these cases to ...

History has proved him right. Over the years historians were rather divided in their assessment of Beck, but nowadays there would appear to be more appreciation of the predicament in which he and ...