Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Rhineland region are characterized by five things: Music, costumes, flowers, candy, and ...

Oxford academic Professor George Garnett claimed to have identified 93 depictions of male genitalia. But now another scholar ...

European imperialist interests led a young noble couple to a new land: the deeply divided, war-torn, and impoverished country ...

Before his death in 2020, the conservative historian Paul Schroeder turned his attention to American empire. A lifetime spent ...

The ideas sprang largely from Prussian studies of Napoleon's campaigns. Technological factors included ... a contest of materiel because of their weaker industrial base in World War I, the Germans ...

Napoleon ordered the sabre in 1802 and kept it throughout his reign. The Giquello auction firm said on Friday it expected the ...

Professor Charles Esdaile, the author of an excellent history of the Peninsular War, has now followed it up with an even better history of the Napoleonic Wars from the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens ...

Peter Rose follows James out west. Vladimir Putin served his apprenticeship in the KGB toward the end of the Cold War, a period during which Western societies were infiltrated by so-called 'illegals'.

a fitting description of the cast of characters that range from criminals and working girls to soldiers in the Napoleonic War. Its themes of poverty, struggle, heartache and never giving up hope ...