What if… the assassination of rasputin had failed?

How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

A Ukrainian PoW’s story Dmytro Chorny had been ...

Missing for centuries, where are the final resting places of some of history’s greatest figures?

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

With casualties mounting and citizens starving, what effect would Stalin striking another deal with Hitler have had?