Volume 75 Issue 6 June 2025

Reports from the First Crusade brought tales of victorious Christian soldiers eating dead bodies.

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet Union’s undercover intelligence gathering.

Margaret Thatcher struggled to write her own speeches. Who put the words in her mouth?

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story of the United States.

When it comes to the end of the Roman Empire three things are certain: death, taxes, and Goths. Were reports of its demise exaggerated?

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain by Anna Whitelock offers a panoramic view of Jacobean foreign policy.

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash between communism and capitalism.

Canada and the US have often been uneasy neighbours; the roots of the latest political flare up can be found in their tangled history.