Interwar period

Derek Aldcroft argues that the statesmen of 1919 failed to act in the interests of Europe as a whole.

Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.

Frank McDonough reviews the debate over Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy.

David Elliott looks at how Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler used culture to their own ends and how the ramifications of this has continued to the present.

Edward Ranson describes how a 17-day political dogfight in New York revealed the faults in American society in the Roaring Twenties.

Hitler's march into the demilitarised Rhineland heralded Churchill's 'gathering storm' – but could the Fuhrer's bluff have been called and the Second World War prevented? Sir Nicholas Hederson, who as Britain's ambassador in Washington during the Falklands crisis saw diplomatic poker eventually turn to war, offers a reassessment of the events of 1936.

Did the system spawn a monster - or a monster the system? Norman Pereira re-evaluates the road to totalitarianism in the Soviet Union after the Revolution, and Stalin's part in it. 

Milton Goldin compares American philanthropy past and present.

'A life of action and constant fidelity to a set of ideas': Max Beloff takes a fresh look at the career of Leo Amery with the publication of the latter's second volume of diaries – a man by no means the stereotype of an inter-war Conservative politician.