The highly decorated general sat opposite his commander in chief and explained the problems his army faced fighting in the hills around...

In the 1980s, the Polish economist Bronislaw Kaminski used to make an observation that confused liberal, leftist and even some...

Mikhail Gorbachev called Afghanistan “our bleeding wound”. Why hasn’t Nato learned from the Soviet Union. In May 1985, two months after...

Twenty years after the wall fell, Mikhail Gorbachev is quietly celebrated in the west, but shunned in Moscow. Yet in both places his...

Hungary is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the uprising against the Russians. Victor Sebestyen, whose family left Hungary when he...