Hitler’s Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer surfaces the stories of those who sought to sit ...

In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, Sam Wetherell discovers a city of slavery, ships, soccer, and socialism, whose ...

Wives for the settlers at Jamestown by William Ludwell Sheppard, 1876. New York Public Library. Public Domain.

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

The siege of Mafeking lasted seven months from October 1899, when the little town was surrounded by a Boer force of some 5,000 men under a redoubtable leader, Piet Cronje. The British garrison ...