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Escape to Colditz | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Colditz

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, and locations all over Europe will be welcoming visitors who wish to mourn and others who wish to learn, while a castle in Saxony will relive some of the great escape stories of the time.

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In the Footsteps of the Conqueror | Peter D Smith | France, Normandy, Bayeaux

Bayeux is one of those Norman towns that closes for lunch — a wonderful idea. At midday all the shutters start going up on the stores lining the main road and silence descends on the town

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Look Who's Stalking Now | AA Gill | United Kingdom, Wales, Brecon

Like most British men, I am the first adult male in my family for 100 years never to have worn uniform

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Midnight in Serendip | John Borthwick | Sri Lanka, West Coast, Bentota

Midnight in Serendib. The moon hangs above the sea like an apostrophe. From the balcony of the hotel, a watcher - last drink at hand - feels the thud of waves against the granite rocks below

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On The Frontier | William Dalrymple | Pakistan, North West Frontier, Peshawar

Violence is to the North West frontier what religion is to the Vatican. It is a raison d’etre, a way of life, an obsession, a philosophy

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On the Trail of the Boer War | John Warburton-Lee | South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg

Set in spectacular country, with views far across the valley to the towering cliffs of the Drakensburg Mountains, Spion Kop rises 1,400 feet above the Tugela River

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The Jungle is Neutral | Philip Sen

Countless lines of marble headstones poke up from Kanchanaburi's three major cemeteries, tended to an immaculate standard by armies of Thai gardeners

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The Rebel Quintet | Brendan Sainsbury

I'm sitting in the secluded ambience of a rustic jungle lodge in the village of Santo Domingo, nestled quietly in the depths of Cuba's Sierra Maestra Mountains

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Touring the Holocaust sites of Poland | Nigel Tisdall | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

It sounded like a holiday in Hell. Seven days touring some of the most harrowing Holocaust sites in Poland - Treblinka, Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto

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Walking the Western Front | Rebecca Ford | Belgium, Flanders, Ypres

The countryside in France and Flanders is still recovering from the fighting. Every year, in what is known as the Iron Harvest, farmers dig up thousands of tons of old shells and gas canisters

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