Frederick the Great has become a common name but this was only the beginning, as a great monarch cannot know peace for long.

We follow 14-year-old Marina Yurlova who joins her father, Cossack Colonel Yurlov, on a train to the front. Artist Käthe Kollwitz and her husband must accept their 17-year-old son’s decision to enlist ...

The world economy could face a downturn similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans ...

Roosevelt agreed when his ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, described de Gaulle as “an apprentice dictator”. There is a chilling echo in Trump’s description of Volodymyr Zelensky as a ...

But the book that stands above the rest is Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), a bristling history of trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I, as seen through ...

But it also represents the elite fear that the U.S. must secure access to critical minerals and infrastructure to prepare for the possibility of a great power war. This fear can be seen in the ...

In the new book “Little Vic and the Great Mafia War,” former New York Daily News reporter Larry McShane delves into the 1990s gangland war that pitted infamous mobster Victor “Little Vic ...

They are tormented by the uncertainty of whether their loved ones are still alive. The men in the trenches are told to concentrate on killing and not worry about their wives back home. The war ...