The Vatican, the War and the Pope's Secret Bank
Yvonnick Denoël takes us back to the Second World War and the Vatican's efforts to secure their wealth
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Our Favourite History Books of 2024
From Paris to India, King Richard II to the Commonwealth of England
Cherry the Pioneering Dog
In this excerpt from 'Faithful Unto Death', Paul Koudounaris traces the modern tradition of pet commemoration back to its roots in Victorian England
New History Books for October 2024
From Edinburgh to Rillington Place, Henry Bolingbroke to Horatio Nelson
Why Are We Drawn to Mountains?
George Mallory, one of the central figures in the history of mountaineering, was haunted by this simple question, as the author Daniel Light explains in this excerpt from The White Ladder.
New History Books for September 2024
From Ancient India to Chernobyl, the Commonwealth of England to King Henry V
New History Books for August 2024
From Operation Barbarossa to the Medieval scriptorium, Kyiv to Cornwall
Why did Joseph Stalin decide to invade Finland in 1939?
The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began in late 1939. For Stalin, as Kimmo Rent...