Russo-Japanese war
Another heroic freethinker is wiped from Russian history
Vera Gedroits, the world’s first woman professor of surgery, inevitably fell foul of Stalin, despite supporting workers’ rights and saving hundreds of lives in the Russo-Japanese war
Autocracy tempered by strangulation
It’s hard to tell at times who came off worst in Romanov Russia — the tsar or his subjects, says Adam Zamoyski
Hubris made the 20th century the bloodiest in history
Sir Alistair Horne, like that other great knight of military history, Sir Michael Howard, served in the Coldstream Guards during…
