Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe; By Rachel Chrastil; Basic Books; 512 pp., $35.00 This was a mechanized conflict involving modern weaponry, featuring the ...

You’re going to hate it,” a friend in Warsaw told me last November, as I headed out one afternoon for the soft opening of the ...

But, last year, the team reported that, for a 40-year period around 54,000 years ago, Grotte Mandrin was used as a hunting camp by a small group of modern humans.The clinching evidence came from a ...

The Making of Modern Turkey, from Byzantium to Angora By Sir Harry Luke. Pp. viii + 246 + 1 plate. (London: ... made the country in the end “the Sick Man of Europe”, ...

The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations by Donald H Chew Columbia University Press £30/$35, 328 pages ...