In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: ...
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Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful ...
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AD: Birth of Tiberius, second emperor of the Roman Empire 1272: Henry III dies aged 65. 1380: French King Charles ...
Jacob’s early scholarship focused on the Nibelungenlied; Schmiesing argues that his fascination with the epic poem stemmed ...
With Donald Trump taking legal advice on how to retain a US base on the Chagos Islands, Tom Marshall reviews a new book by ...
In WWII, 70,000 British and Commonwealth Jews served. A further 31,000 Yishuv Jews joined up as well – 26,000 had served ...
Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...
Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ invites audiences into a visually spectacular sci-fi realm that delves into the origins of ...
Each year in November, the poppy appears on coats across the country. It's a symbol as old as any of us, but where did it ...