The role of personality and charm in running a state is one theme of Richard Bassett’s superb book, the first English ...

It's as if, before our very eyes, the president of the United States were reading a script written by the Kremlin. French ...

Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explores how the Habsburgs transformed Vienna into a melting pot of culture, music and ideas, and how Mozart, Klimt, Napoleon, Strauss, Hitler, Stalin and Freud all ...

Historian Niall Ferguson claims that the United States could be headed to the same ruin of every previous advanced ...

As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship ...

Switzerland's government approved a parliamentary committee motion to strengthen controls at its borders. But what does the ...

In Luke Stegemann’s perceptive “new biography” of the kaleidoscopic capital of Spain, he chides Hemingway for possibly being ...

The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.

Frøya in Norway and Schönbrunn Palace in Austria have won the best European filming locations of the year awards at the ...

Europe's royal palaces are not only architectural wonders but play an important role in the culture and history of their ...

The journey of the Habsburgs and their rise to power; how Vienna became the centre of conflict between the Ottomans and Christendom, as well as the Catholic Church against the Protestants.