By the end of the first week of the war, Russia’s underperformance was clear. Vladimir Putin was less a strategic…
In 1904, war broke out between Russia and Japan after long-simmering tensions. Western feeling was that the Russians would crush…
For over 20 years, Russia’s leader has assumed a carefully-constructed persona: the Vladimir Putin myth. He was Russia’s latter-day Czar,…
It is the first century AD. Han China and the Roman Empire are the two “superpowers” of east and west.…
Because he was such a force of nature, we tend to think that Alexander the Great’s accession to the throne…
It is late 216 BC. The Romans have just suffered a catastrophic defeat at Cannae. 40,000 Romans were packed in…
The darkest days of Egypt tested the country’s women as much as its men. Seqenenre, Kamose, and Ahmose are all…
If ever there were a time when things seemed hopeless for men who loved their country, Ancient Egypt’s Second Intermediate…
Darkness clouds the land of Egypt. The two lands are divided once again, as Horus and Set renewed their eternal…
476 is typically regarded as a pivotal year in history, as it saw the “fall of Rome” – the final…