War

Beloved of celebrities, the SS Normandie was the fastest, most beautiful ocean-going liner of them all – yet it was doomed from the start

The 1943 Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle in history and left a landscape of apocalyptic destruction. It still holds lessons for the war in Ukraine

When the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands, they built a network of forced labour camps. What happened there is still a matter of controversy – and pain

In his rush to participate in geopolitics, has the president forgotten about strife-torn France itself?

Ivor Prickett’s photographs capture not just the horror of conflict but also the tender moments, the tedium and the weary suffering

As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle

The window of opportunity for victory against Russia is open. If Zelensky does not succeed, pressure for a deal will grow

Failing in Ukraine and undermined by his allies: make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin

The German-born artist created his melancholy and nightmarish Europe After the Rain II during the most frightening and uncertain period of his own life

The great European author, who died earlier this month, didn’t leave Croatia – her country left her

Mines laid by the Russian invaders are responsible for a quarter of military casualties in Ukraine

Remembering the brave resistance of Germany’s White Rose movement and their fight for free expression

Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb war criminal, is dying. For one of the families he ripped apart, his fate means nothing