Historia

Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques's global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese …

From the creation of newspapers with national reach in the late nineteenth century to the lightning-fast dispatches and debates of today's Internet, the media have played an …

At thirty-seven, Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, Chief of Staff of the Reich Reserve Army, was a charismatic figure destined for supreme command. That was also the name of …

Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep …

Anna Vasa är dotter till kung Johan III och Catarina Jagellonica. Men som prinsessa är hon raka motsatsen till vad som förväntas av henne; hon är envis, hetlevrad och låter sig …

Menneisyyteen voi saada uudenlaisen otteen, jos historia nähdään harrastuksena ja sen oppiminen taitona eikä vain faktojen omaksumisena. Ajan merkit avaa historian peruskäsitteitä …

Riding on the wave of his victory at Atlanta, Union General W. T. Sherman abandoned his supply lines in an attempt to push his forces into Confederate territory and take Savannah. …

The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya …

Every day for nine months from September 1944, young British Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead in northern Scotland to target German …