Israel’s current campaign is built around two realities often missed by so-called realists: first, that the Iranian ...

A man of intellectual arrogance and social insecurity with a contempt for ‘blue bloods’ who dominated top ranks of the British army ...

Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on targets in Iran. Seven ...

As a biographer, your work spans vastly different moments and figures from modern history – from Wallis Simpson to Ethel ...

A move on the ayatollahs' regime would echo moments ‘when a sudden act of opportune ruthlessness readjusts the world toward a ...

The president’s most important job, as the sole steward of America’s nuclear arsenal, is to prevent nuclear war. And a ...

Outrageous', the six-part BritBox series serialises the lives of the sextet of Mitford sisters — and it makes for a seriously ...

A New History of the Fourteenth Century by Helen Carr (Hutchinson Heinemann) Half a century ago Barbara Tuchman turned our attention to the 14th century in A Distant Mirror, inviting readers to see ...

Imagine, if you will, being the one son within the Mitford family. A lone male, surrounded by those six tumultuous sisters: ...

He cites Francis Drake’s fireship attack on the Spanish Armada in 1588 and Winston Churchill’s agonizing decision in ... Ferguson, currently writing the second volume of his authorized biography of ...

Although a generous memoir full of praise for those with whom he has worked, at the heart of this book lies a powerful and ...