Officers of 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers and Royal Air Force at Kalafrana Sea Base (1935) Throughout the ...

The west will surely have to pay a heavy price one day for its culpability in this evil. Israel should have been stopped ...

Despite the region’s impressive heritage and history, Egypt was not an independent nation until 1922 under the reign of King Fuad I. Although its former coloniser Britain retained influence until the ...

The war against Abyssinia. This is a book designed not for the academic but for the general reader. And it succeeds in that context, but also is an excellent history in English of the war. Physically ...

The tale of The Daily Beast is an object lesson in why you should be careful who or what you compare yourself to. For those of you who don't know how the lefty outlet got its name, the moniker comes ...

Who can doubt that if Castro had the ability, he wouldn’t follow Mussolini’s example and find some Caribbean Abyssinia to invade? Actually, now that I think of it he (sorta kinda) did.

John Gooch is Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Leeds (UK) and author of Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy fromn Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943, to be released December 1. On ...