History Today

Truman and the Atom Bomb

Alonzo Hamby considers Harry Truman's First World War experiences and explores the dilemmas that influenced his decision to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Could the Jacobites Have Won?

Jeremy Black marks the bicentenary of the '45 Rebellion by assessing how close Bonnie Prince Charlie came to making his father James III of England.

Love in a Wet Climate

Russia oldest love letter was discovered, in 1995, among medieval rubbish heaps excavated in Novgorod.

India's Divided Loyalties?

Peter Heehs looks at the Indian army who threw in their lot against the Raj and with the Japanese in the Second World War.