By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...

Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...

Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...

A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...

The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...

It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...

In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...

"If I had to pick a single overall theme in the book, I would say it’s...

"But at that point most of the expeditionaries perished as a result of Indian attacks, illness,...

In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...