Military

Patrick O'Brien assess the devastating impact of the 'war to end all wars' on an international economic order that had seemed, pre-1914, relatively sturdy.

Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.

Omer Bartov traces the impact of people's armies from Napoleon to the First World War and beyond.

How did Hitler's armies try and persuade the occupied populations of the Soviet Union to live with their new regime? British military historian John Erickson comments on wartime posters unearthed from the Russian archives.

Frank McDonough looks at two new works on post-war Germany

80 years after The Great War's outbreak Hugh Purcell looks at how film moulded its popular image and fused fiction with reality.

Mark Meigs uncovers a fascinating initiative enacted in France at the end of the First World War designed to turn American soldiers into students empowered with all the virtues of the Progressive era.

Has Britain been de-industrialising since 1945? Robert Millward weighs up the evidence for and against - with some surprising conclusions.

Frank Nowikowski investigates missing paintings mysteriously found after the Second World War.

Sir Alan Harris recalls the role of the artificial harbours in securing victory in Europe over the Nazis.