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'A gift for Holocaust deniers': how Polish libel ruling will hit historians
The authors of a study on the fate of Polish Jews under Nazism have been told...
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Traitor review: American perfidy, from Benedict Arnold to Donald J Trump
David Rothkopf has all a good Trump reporter requires. Sixteen days out from the election, his...
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America Through Foreign Eyes review: a Mexican take on the US under Trump
Jorge Castañeda, once Mexico’s foreign minister, looks at the neighbour to the north – and where...
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Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone
Exclusive: Thomas Young used cut-up method to treat translation of Egyptian relic as mathematical problem, papers...
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The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad review – recent history at its finest
Thomas Hegghammer delivers a meticulously researched account of a charismatic IslamistAbdallah Azzam is not exactly a...
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What the butler saw: sex secrets of French presidents' palace revealed
For 300 hundred years staff at the Elysée witnessed men flaunting their power over women, but...
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On the trail of a Nazi war criminal: 'It's my duty as a son to find the good in my father'
East West Street author Philippe Sands uncovers secrets and lies on the trail of Otto Wächter,...
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Tacky's Revolt review: Britain, Jamaica, slavery and an early fight for freedom
Vincent Brown’s military history sheds precious light on a brutally suppressed revolt which paved the road...
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Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend review – a revolutionary history of the Aztecs
A famous narrative turned on its head – how the Spanish conquistadors, not the Aztecs, were...
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The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather review – the hero who infiltrated Auschwitz
This astonishing account of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Warsaw resistance who tried to incite...
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe by Norman M Naimark review – the postwar struggle for power
Was Soviet dominance ruthlessly extended in Europe after the second world war? Or were Stalin’s policies...
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The Buried by Peter Hessler review – life, death and revolution in Egypt
This remarkable example of ‘slow journalism’ links the pharaohs with Egypt’s Arab springOf all the ill-fated...
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History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to an objective version of...
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Caroline Williams obituary
My friend and colleague Caroline Williams, who has died aged 57 after a short illness, was...
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Michael Coe obituary
Archaeologist who explored the ancient civilisations of Mexico and Central AmericaMichael Coe, who has died aged...
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'It has saved countless lives': readers' picks of the best books this century
After we published our list of the greatest books since 2000, you sent in your own...
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Silver, Sword and Stone review: much blood shed, little improvement
Jefferson saw Latin America dominated by ‘priests and kings’. Marie Arana’s history is similarly dark –...