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Asked in December 2025 what the biggest sticking point was in negotiating peace in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump got ...

This video explores how one of Europe’s strongest nations collapsed with unexpected speed in 1870, revealing how flawed leadership, outdated strategy and Prussia’s superior organization led to ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2021. Pp. x, 294. Illus., maps, appends., notes, biblio., index. $42.95. ISBN: 1526790297 Why Paris Fell The ...

A Pulitzer Prize winning classic work first published in 1991, this thick but not ponderous book traces the roots of the Great War by recounting much of nineteenth century European history, from ...

ERNST VON BERGMANN, who was one of the most skilful surgeons and commanding personalities in Germany of the last century, was born at Riga on December 16, 1836. He received his medical education at ...

If Ukraine cannot negotiate the return of the occupied territories as part of a peace arrangement, it probably means that it will not be able to negotiate their return in the post-peace phase, either.

It will probably be at least a hundred years before commentators as a whole will be able to write dispassionately about the man who has dominated the Spanish scene for the past thirty-six years, ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a combat veteran, is asking the right question: What increases lethality in a modern military? Pundits and analysts can disagree about the answers and the manner in ...

Shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War (1871), 17-year-old Charles Leopold Hartmann left his native village of Nordheim, Alsace, and emigrated to the U. S. Of French sympathies, he ...

THE capture of Napoleon III at Sedan on Sept. 2,1870, ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the ...