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Richard Evans has written two articles for History Review explaining how a modern, progressive country surrendered to a brutal and murderous dictatorship. In the first, he traces Hitler's rise to the Chancellorship.

Howard Amos interrogates a key text on colonialism and assesses its influence.

Stephen Young puts the career of the 40th American President into historical perspective.

Mark Rathbone compares Gladstone's and Disraeli's differing approaches to a crucial foreign policy issue.

Geoffrey Roberts accounts for the Soviet victory in the greatest battle of the Second Word War.

George Weidenfeld recalls a masterful historian of ancient Rome, and much else besides.

Peter Day delves into documents recently released from the National Archives to review the short and sad career of Talal, father of King Hussein of Jordan.

Already dictator of France, a coronation took place on 2 December, 1804.

The only Englishman ever to be Pope, Nicholas Breakspear was elected on December 4th, 1154.

Leslie Ray argues that politics and football have always been inseparable in the land of the ‘hand of God’.