Eastern Europe

A mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on 14 May 1955.

John Erickson assesses the massive Soviet assault into Germany in the final year of the war and the price of liberation.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.

John W. Mason gives the historical background to this month's elections in Slovakia.

Nicholas Soteri reflects on the often-overlooked Jewish kingdom of Khazaria, and the vital role they played in balancing Christian and Muslim power in the early medieval period.

Robin Bruce Lockhart looks at the Anglophile his father knew and discusses new theories on how he died and why.

Kenneth Asch on Prague's memento to the great composer