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

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

On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t

A city of Catholics in the aftermath of nuclear attack

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

“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”