Terror in croatia

Forty years ago, football hooliganism was at its peak, causing outrage, fear and fatalities. How did the sport recover from its darkest days, and what happened to the men who belonged to the “firms”? Rosa Silverman reports

To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War will be taking a look at some of the key events taking place during each month of the conflict

50 YEARS LATER

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

“What are you doing here?” It is a sunny April morning in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, and a Palestinian man is busy on the roof of a low-set house. Under the partial shadow of a tree, it looks like

How ‘Putin’s Chef’ led a mercenary mutiny that shook the Kremlin