Key point: It belonged in a different era. A Mediterranean nation beset by military coup and civil war. A savage struggle marked by atrocities and fanaticism. Proxy war waged by outside nations ...

Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII, by Sean McMeekin (Basic Books: 2021), 864 pages. The peoples of the Russian Federation—despite the imperishable cynicism that so many express on matters ...

By 1948, the Greek Civil War had become a brutal proxy conflict, fueled by foreign aid and ideological rivalry. The ...

FEW neurotics are geniuses. But many geniuses are neurotics. Lev Davidovich Bronstein was more than a little of both. This son of a prosperous Jewish farmer was born in the Ukraine in 1879. He died in ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city, delivering an enormous blow to ...