Leading historians share the texts that have inspired and informed their work

The samurai’s history and legacy, Angela Merkel’s 21st-century military and a new aviation festival

Harrowing images reveal civilians being killed, starved and forced from their homes, living each day in fear amid Sudan’s civil war

In this issue’s Frontline, the US in Greenland, its contribution to WWI, nuclear threats in Ukraine, Operation Urgent Fury’s aftermath and Lviv’s troubled history

The ‘gateway to the West’ has for years become a relative sanctuary from the onslaught on Ukraine’s frontline. But the city and region’s long history has seen it at the centre of countless conquests

Controversy of the week A grim anniversary When ...