Ahmed Rehan Nasir is a contributor from Pakistan. With a Psych degree in hand, Rehan has a knack for picking apart anime and dissecting characters. When he isn't writing features, you'll probably find ...
The Great War -- Preparedness -- The decision -- Mobilization -- The Yanks are coming -- Into the breach -- The prophet of democracy -- Carthaginian peace -- Unintended consequences -- Normalcy -- ...
The Eastern Front. By Nick Lloyd. Viking; 672 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in August; $42 Just 29 years old, Karl I was desperate to lead Austria-Hungary out of the first ...
Why did Peter the Great wage the Seven Years War? Why did he fight the Swedes for seven years? And the Battle of Poltava, do you know where it is? Where are Sweden and Poltava? The decisive battle of ...
Men wearing military uniforms bearing a Z letter, an insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine, walk along the Red square in Moscow, on January 19, 2024. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ...
It’s spring 1917, the third year of war. In Northern Germany, a teenager forges his mother’s signature and joins the Kaiser’s army. His name is Paul Baumer, and his story will form the backbone of the ...
Armies, like writers, prey on orphans and misfits. Scenes of military recruitment have been a literary staple at least since Bulgarian soldiers kidnapped Voltaire’s Candide, but few are more bleakly ...
As the standard narrative goes, the tensions and conflicts that have afflicted the Middle East over the past century originate with the arbitrary redrawing of the region’s map by the British and ...
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