Creativity in wartime, a Swedish mission to rescue Holocaust victims and tours of an iconic British warship

After covering the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, it was perhaps inevitable that Frank McDonough – one of the country’s foremost historians of the Third Reich – would turn his attention to the Holo

Our historians discuss the movies that have informed and inspired them

This moment is surely imbued with the most global symbolism. It was when, according to the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, adventurers sailed across the north Atlantic from settlements on the west coast of

AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

Although I realise that it is a favourite pastime among historians, particularly the British, to demonstrate that our idols have feet of clay, I must protest at the inclusion of Winston Churchill in t