Reviews

Poster showing the ‘Birth of the Soviets and the Different Organs of Soviet Power’, c. 1920.

Survival of the Least Fit

Is there a trend of ‘reverse Darwinism’ in Russian history?

Vietnamese soldiers during the First Indochina War.

Total War

The means, tactics and strategies employed by Vietnamese communist authorities against the occupying French.

view of the Italian peninsula looking south from the Alps, 19th century.

‘History of the Adriatic’ by Egidio Ivetic review

History of the Adriatic: A Sea and its Civilization by Egidio Ivetic explores the Mediterranean within the Mediterranean as a single historical space.

Section from a Qur'an Manuscript ca. 1300

‘Muhammad, the World-Changer’ by Mohamad Jebara review

Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait by Mohamad Jebara is a balanced rendering of the Prophet Muhammad’s life.

Bad Dreams

Divining disaster at Aberfan and beyond, in subjects from nocebos to lost cosmonauts.

“Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

The USSR in Afghanistan

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its effect on the international politics of the late Cold War era.

conscientious objector Sidney Spencer on his way to plead his case at Liverpool tribunal, 25 March 1941.

Object Lesson

The personal testimonies of conscientious objectors do not provide easy answers.

Louis IX carrying the Sceptre and the Hand of Justice, from Registre des Ordonnances de L’Hotel du Roi, c.1320.

We are Family

From alliances, to open warfare; from tense meetings on bridges, to collective mourning at family funerals: French and English royalty were united by marriage and divided by war.