Hopes that Michael Collins will be named Britain’s greatest foe rest on the shoulders of an English-born history lecturer.

Michael Collins has been voted one of Britain’s five greatest foes, after results of an online poll by the National Army Museum in London placed him ahead of celebrated adversaries like Napoleon, Erwin Rommel and George Washington.

Adolf Hitler’s favourite commander Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox” who relentlessly fought allied forces across North Africa in the Second World War, was a hopeless romantic, extracts from love letters published in a German newspaper reveal.

AGONY AND ECSTASY: Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs race to celebrate with Anderson who scored the winning penalty in the Carling Cup final shoot-out at Wembley.

Britain's Prince Harry provoked outrage today after being pictured dressed as a Nazi soldier at a fancy dress party.

TONIGHT I’m going for a drink and a bite to eat with Tony O’Reilly. Hang on, I’ll rephrase. Tonight I will be in a hotel room with 500 other people — and one of them will be AJF O’Reilly.