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One afternoon in the autumn of 1851, a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way. Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American wars. Father Jean-Marie Latour...

The story of Russia's historic opening to the West (1992-2022), where it succeeded and why it has failed, the impact of war and sanctions, and the prospects for Russia's future. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought a tragic close to a thirty-year period of history that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reopening of Russia...

The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze, winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, presents the first global history of what is often considered the world's first world war. Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these locations are most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. However, how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect regions beyond Europe? The immense...

'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.' The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann's first major success. It draws on his own family history and on his vivid memories of growing up in the commercial town of Lübeck in...