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The enormous scale of this particularly ferocious war is hard to comprehend. It started with Russia totally disadvantaged, but the turn-around was awesome, as Stalin's war machine revved into action. Richard Overy explains how...
Precise as a hole punch through a sheet of paper, craters surround a Nazi doodlebug factory in an extraordinary image showing the devastation wreaked by an Allied bombing raid. The date is September 2, 1944 and the place...
Benito Mussolini didn't look like your average Casanova. Animal attraction: Benito Mussolini regularly had 14 lovers at a time and would sleep with four in the same evening Until now, that is, and the emergence of a series of...
Nov 23, 2009 (LBO) - Parliamentary majorities can always be used to direct the coercive power of the state against a particular people or a group of peoples, in the absence of absolute guarantees of freedoms and equality or the...
By Paul Craig Roberts Republican members of Congress and what masquerades as a "conservative" media are outraged that the Obama administration intends to try in federal court Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of...
41-year-old adoptee Matthew Roberts' quest to find his birth parents has ended in a shock after his biological mother finally relented and revealed that his father is serial killer Charles Manson. His mother was raped by Manson...
who have dreamed of possessing a world-wide dominion, a universal kingdom that would last forever. Some have come close to conquering much of the known world — Alexander, Genghis Khan, Augustus Caesar, and Adolf Hitler, to name...
HOW do you want to be buried: fast or slow? In Sweden, two sisters say they father’s coffin was dropped into the earth too fast. The sisters claim dad was almost dropped by two drunk undertakers. We join the scene. The...
In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremists As every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping...
Sunday, November 22, 2009 Zafar Khalid Farooq in his article "It's the stupidity, stupid" (November 19) makes an exceptionally fair point but with ambitious assumptions. Mr Farooq should remember that despite its philosophical,...
