Second World War

Haunted by the Ghosts of Babi Yar

Ajay Kamalakaran

Ajay Kamalakaran visits the site of a mass grave in the Ukraine where over 34,000 Jews were gunned down by Nazis and local accomplices in 1941

Brexit: An English Romance

Swapan Dasgupta

In Brexit the world has witnessed a clash of civilisations—and a vindication of Enoch Powell

The War That Made Us

Shivshankar Menon

Srinath Raghavan’s magisterial history of World War II is a graphic reminder that an integrated Subcontinent is essential to the rise and strategic safety of India

Europe Reimagined

Srinath Raghavan

As three historians return to the bloody evolution of 20th century Europe, we realise how the current cataclysms of a continent make it easier for us to understand its past