The five strategy and leadership

A parallel history of Churchill and de Gaulle

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

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

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

JACK HIGGINS’ SEMINAL NOVEL WAS PUBLISHED FIVE DECADES AGO THIS MONTH, BUT WAS THE NAZI PLAN TO KIDNAP OR ASSASSINATE THE ‘BIG THREE’ IN TEHRAN GENUINE, OR AN ELABORATE SOVIET FICTION?

A great upheaval is under way. Who will inherit the Earth? Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.