The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing brings folklore’s most famous double act out of the shadowy realm of legend ...

Russia’s entry into the global economy was met with glee by international firms in the early 1990s. The exodus has been just ...

The rapid surrender of Japan in 1945 certainly suggested that the United States possessed the most decisive of weapons. Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less ...

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger looks above decks for the story of the modern Royal Navy.

The period of Russian rule in California has almost been forgotten; but, though nothing survives of the little fortress that once commanded a river flowing out into Bodega Bay, they call it Russian ...

London, Hereford and Oxford have all laid claim to Pepys’ ‘pretty witty Nell’ – he also called her ‘a bold merry slut’ -- but she was probably a native Londoner, born close to the scene of her future ...

Individuals are not happy in proportion to the amount of space their persons occupy. Yet certain nations, at certain periods of their history, seem to take it for granted that the wider they spread ...

Sir George Otto Trevalyan, whose books on the American Revolution are still standard reading, fostered the argument, drawn from the contemporary opponents of George III, that the American colonists ...

The great names of Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland and Wagram are common knowledge to any student with even a passing acquaintance of the military affairs of the early nineteenth century; they symbolize ...

Glancing at the reliefs illustrated in Han Tomb Art one sees at once that the people who produced them loved hunting, eating, drinking, dancing, music, charioteering, parlour games, and ancient ...

In September 1949 the American, British and Canadian governments announced that an atomic explosion had recently occurred in the Soviet Union. The Soviet news agency Tass responded, laughably blaming ...

At the Durbar in 1903 the Viceroy made his entry into Delhi seated upon an elephant at the head of horsemen in chain armour, warriors on camels, fighting men on stilts, Burmen in green and mauve ...