History Review

David Williamson explains why events in Berlin twice threatened to unleash a third world war.

Geoffrey Roberts assesses Stalin’s changing reputation, 50 years after his death.

Robert Carr draws uncomfortable parallels between Christianity and Nazism.

Jon Cook identifies the mix of factors that helps explain the Florentine Renaissance.

Retha Warnicke examines the tumultuous career of Mary, Queen of Scots, before her long incarceration by her cousin Elizabeth I of England.

Robin Evans extols the outstanding success of 1588: not the defeat of the Spanish Armada but the publication of the Welsh Bible.

To what extent did Christians support Hitler, and for what reasons?

Graham Goodlad asks if the media did more to support or to challenge politicians during the last century.

F.G. Stapleton examines the role played by the armed forces in the government of the Second Reich.

Robert Pearce introduces the man who has been called ‘the George Washington of Poland’.