Greatest battles

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

On the feast day of St Mary Magdalene in 1342, the heavens opened over Würzburg with unrelenting fury. What had begun as a whisper in the summer air was thundering like a wild beast. The skies, heavy

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

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

Rich, resourceful and ruthless, the Venetians left handsome imprints across the Greek world, says Matthew Dennison , as he explores the lingering traces of a vanished empire