War and genocide—then and now

Our front cover features a painting of the Lancaster bomber—VN-Z ME798—crewed by Irish airman Sergeant P.B. McRann, the subject of a piece of family history detective work by Desmond Gibney on pp 44–6. For male readers of a certain age the image will surely conjure up nostalgic memories, particularly olfactory ones, of Airfix model-making. But … Read more