As László Krasznahorkai wins this year’s Prize for Literature, here is our selection of past laureates worth seeking out ...

It is the picture which showed the true horror of the second-world war – a man blithely shooting Jewish prisoners and ...

French Prime Minister Daladier overplays his hand and is replaced after his vision regarding Scandinavia wasn't widely shared in the French parliament. Meanwhile, the French and British in France are ...

The German plans for the invasion of Western Europe start taking shape. Mansteins plan is innovative, bold and controversial, but Hitler likes it. If everything goes according to his plan, the Germans ...