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The Second World War was a conflict like no other, yet for 80 years it has defined the very idea of war itself.
Fifty years on from the desperate evacuation of Saigon, the helicopter remains a potent, if hubristic, symbol of American power. It hovers, all-powerful, over everything, but it ca..
Graham Greene's troubled childhood hardened him as a writer and made him a shrewd observer of the human condition. Although his work is peppered with cynicism, it is at its most pr..
The architects of the postwar world order did not follow a coherent design. Their settlement evolved, like the construction of a cathedral, through fits and starts, improvisations,..
The possibilities of suburbia, one of the great legacies of the Edwardian fightback against the excesses of industrialisation, remain largely unexplored.
The current protectionist turn in the United States, like that in Britain 120 years ago, is driven by a geopolitics of fear. An economic model that has worked for decades is no lon..
Canadian leaders' attempts to use Europe to counterbalance the United States have shown that imaginative statecraft can shape diplomatic relations, but cannot replace hard geopolit..
The rise and fall of the world's first millionaire, a swashbuckling Scottish financier who all but bankrupted 18th-century France, may offer lessons for the world's first trilliona..
Why and how did the Templars acquire such enormous power and prominence during the Middle Ages? In a single word: marketing.
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