After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.

A “golden nugget” of WWI history: Dr Mesut Uyar reviews the newly published diary of Captain Orlo Williams, offering an invisible man’s view of the Gallipoli high command.

The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, reveal...

To fight a war, there must be two sides – and two stories. The Gaza Battles brings the 1917 campaign for Palestine vividly to life through both Australian and Ottoman eyes, revealing what each side saw, decided, and endured on the road to Beersheba. Drawing on new archival evidence and more than 100 rare images, this compelling account uncovers the intertwined experiences of Australian and Ottoman forces and offers a fresh perspective on a battlefront that shaped two nations and the modern Middle East.

US Central Command announced that “two U.S. service members and one U.S. civilian were killed, and three service members were injured, as a result of an ambush by a lone gunman in Syria.” A Syrian gov...

What should have been the peak of the sculptor’s career was doomed to coincide with what the Chinese call interesting times