World War II was the largest and most devastating war in modern history with far-reaching consequences. The single most important campaign was the Soviet–Germ

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the

The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then

In this collection, senior scholars explore the transit ion from war to uneasy peace: how and why the war ended as it did, whether a different resolution was po

At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance