War in focus

Confederate victory at Antietam might have contributed to the end of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency in the election of 1864

In this issue’s Frontline you can read our interview with former CIA Assistant Director Mark Lowenthal; analysis of the USA’s historic military strategy in Greenland; plus full accounts of how two key conflicts of the 20th century came to an end

THE WAY WE WERE

Whether they knew his name or not, whole generations of Brits were familiar with the work of Reginald Mount, who lent his talents to the Ministry of Information during World War Two and beyond. Mount,

Creation and destruction, death and rebirth: Anselm Kiefer at eighty

It would be easy to get confused, at a quick glance. But although it sports the same number of funnels, the sinking transatlantic liner depicted here isn’t RMS Titanic but RMS Lusitania, it’s 1915 rat