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At the start of September 1914, after just one month of war in Europe, the German army were at the gates of Paris. The word on the street was that emperor Wilhelm II had already booked a dinner table ...

Sept. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1522, one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships -- the Vittoria -- arrived at Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, completing the first circumnavigation of the ...

The German armies that approached the city this time were exhausted from their long, fighting march through Belgium and northern France. And they had left their supply depots far behind -- any lengthy ...

An admirable book which seeks to make available in English the immense amount of documentary and other material that has poured from the press in the last twenty years. Based upon the French, Belgian, ...

Two decisive historical moments, revisited. One of the jobs of historians is to provoke us to rethink what we thought we knew. Two recent books—one on the Battle of the Marne, the other on Hitler and ...

The irony of Robert Crumb, per this alternately rollicking and perceptive biography, is that the cartoonist most identified with 1960s counterculture was no hippie. The man Continue reading » Everyday ...

Warwick, Eng.: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2022. Pp. xiv, 188. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $45.00 paper. ISBN: 191507083X The Failure of German ...