After losing in 1945 Winston Churchill continued to scrutinize world affairs and speak out against Soviet expansionism.

This unravelling was accelerated by domestic and colonial unrest. The Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946—spanning ...

The work of US historian Bruce Cumings offers a full and fair understanding of what went before June 25 1950, and what came later. While US combat forces had exited the South in 1949, financial ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near ...

The 56-member Commonwealth might even succeed in devising a peace formula for a West Asia whose warring entities -- Palestine ...

On July 5 1945 the United Kingdom went to the polls. To include the votes of servicemen serving overseas, the result was not ...