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In 1979 the Soviet Union moved from military 'help' to active intervention in Afghanistan. Four-fifths of the Afghan National Army deserted in the first year ...
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In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end ...
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The commonly-held view of Rome's naval history is that it essentially ended with the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra's fleet at Actium in ...
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of ...
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Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And ...
Israel is surrounded by an array of ever-changing threats. But what if its most serious challenge comes from within? There was once a national consensus ...
'No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.' -Niall Ferguson
'We do not need to invent the world anew. The ...