UKRAINE: From Independence to War
Red Square, Christmas Day 1991 Ukraine Independence 1991 President follows President from 1991 to 2019 Corruption follows Corruption Pro...
Red Square, Christmas Day 1991 Ukraine Independence 1991 President follows President from 1991 to 2019 Corruption follows Corruption Pro...
It should be no surprise to learn that Louis XVI's two younger brothers, Louis XVIII and Charles X, returned to the throne of France...
Napoleon the Great Andrew Roberts Napoleon Adam Zamoyski The Napoleonic Wars Richard Holmes...
UKRAINE 1945-91: The Soviet Years A shorter synopsis than usual but covering nearly half a century of Soviet repression. Immediate...
Napoleon Bonaparte is a figure larger than life. To the British he became a bogey man - mothers warned their children that if they didn't...
Caught between Nazism and Stalinism Recap on the inter war years (with new material) 1939/41 Poland divided as result of Ribbentrop and...
HISTORY The World Simon Sebag Montefiori A Village in The Third Reich Julia Boyd How one village, Oberstdorf, lived through...
* vERY VERY PERSONAL SELECTION Pre Revolution *Louis XIV Philip Mansel Louis XIV: The Real King of Versailles Josephine Wilkinson...
The reign of Louis XVI (1774-93), in hindsight, marked France's last opportunity to deal with its myriad of problems, financial, social,...
2 types of Famine in history Lenin and Ukraine. The War of Reconquest Politics and Food Famine in USSR as in Tsarist Russia Lenin and...
To great glory and to utter humiliation for the Royal House Glory came in the reign of The Sun King, Louis XIV. This is exemplified in...
Introduction, beginning with Lloyd-George First World War has impact on Ukraine War with Ukrainians fighting on both sides Towards the...
The Modern 16th century Two European movements dominate French history during this century, as they dominated the history of the wider...
1795-1914 Prelude: Odessa Stairs, Prince Potemkin, Crimes, and Putin Introduction: The Partition of Poland-Lithuania Russian Ukraine: A...
A look at these three distinct topics will provide an interesting introduction to this fourth part of the story of France. Medieval...
Part 1: Who are the Ukrainians? A Russian and a Ukrainian view Where is Ukraine today? How long has there been an independent Ukrainian...
There continues to be much argument amongst academics and the general public of what the phrase Dark Ages means in a Western European...
Not until the 19th century was a serious effort made to train people for leadership roles. Unsurprisingly this occurred mainly in...
It is with the Romans that we get our first recorded history of France, known to the Romans as Gaul. It is Julius Caesar himself who...
France is not another version of England, its powerful neighbour. Neither is France Paris. France is different in many ways to its...