Europe

Alan Farmer assesses the personal responsibility of the Führer

Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys tell the fascinating story of how rabies – a disease that still kills thousands worldwide every year – was eradicated from Britain.

Lucy Riall discusses the life and career of the Italian nationalist and soldier Giuseppe Garibaldi, and the circumstances by which he became the first celebrity of the modern political age.

Simon Sebag Montefiore imagines dinner with Catherine the Great, Prince Potemkin and Stalin.

Derek Wilson looks at the great religious reformer and asks why his life and work have seemed so ­significant to so many diverse people for almost 500 years.

Richard Cavendish recalls May 17th, 1257.

Tobias Grey introduces a film about the North African soldiers in the Second World War which has taken France by storm, and is opening in Britain on March 30th.

The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III died on April  2nd, 1657.

Kevin Shillington looks at the impact on Africa of the slave trade, and its abolition 200 years ago this month.

Philip Morgan explains why Italians have tended to gloss over the period 1940-43, when Mussolini fought against the Allies, preferring to remember the years of German occupation 1943-45.