Narrative history is Antony Beevor’s great strength. Stalingrad, a landmark study of the Second World War’s bloodiest battle, ...

Grigori Rasputin is one of the most notorious names in Russian history - and his piercing eyes, creepy gaze, greasy hair, and bushy beard only add to the mystique surrounding him. The Mad Monk, as he ...

The British historian, who has announced a work on the Battle of Britain and predicts a war in the Baltic, devotes his new ...

That hypnotic stare haunts historical photographs. Rasputin's unlikely path led straight through the heart of Russian history and somehow landed in nightclubs worldwide. His strange legacy connects ...

In the volumes of Russian history there are a great many famous names. In the arts we read of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, on the battlefield there was Peter the Great and Zhukov and in the sciences, ...