The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

THE STRUGGLE FOR MEMORY

A Spain allied with the Nazis in the Second World War would have ruined the Allied campaign in the Middle East, but doomed the Francoist state to an earlier collapse

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

Daniel Johnson worries that an illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values of liberty, democracy and the rule of law