German armed forces signed an unconditional surrender, bringing the Second World War in Europe to an end. To celebrate the ...

Historian Mark White explores whether John F Kennedy would have defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964 – and how his second term ...

Although British soldiers in the Second World War sang about the Führer only having “one ball”, that did not necessarily make ...

In the early 19th century, a gifted and divisive figure from France became a political giant in Europe – and it wasn’t ...

Rising from the fires of the French Revolution, one young man reached the top of European politics – not through seizing ...