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Russell Tarr sees similarities but also important contrasts in the foreign policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Second-hand books don’t just tell the stories of their authors but of their former owners, too.

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.

Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day.