12/15/2025 - 12:01am

What if Napoleon had won? Counterfactual history has seldom been so rich

Boyd Tonkin

18.10

Putin is facing his Waterloo Bondarchuk’s epic revels in Soviet savagery

Aris Roussinos

22.11

Ridley Scott: our Anglo-Saxon Maximus The Napoleonic Age is just the latest era he has conquered

Aris Roussinos

06.10

The EU’s end is in sight The nation-state will displace this dying federation

Philip Cunliffe

04.05

Britain needs a Napoleon Our local democracy is absurdly complicated

Tom McTague

27.09

Russia’s 18th-century war Waiting for Putin's fall is not a strategy

Edward Luttwak

07.03

The Russia we have lost Putin has crushed a generation's dreams

Ben Judah

05.05

What if Napoleon had conquered Britain? We avoided the extreme, continental ideologies of the 20th century

Jeremy Black

26.02

France can’t cancel Napoleon How will Emmanuel Macron mark the general's difficult bicentenary?

John Lichfield

17.02

Europe is waiting for its Napoleon The instability at the heart of the EU may pave the way for a strongman

Peter Franklin

02.11

The age-old tension between Islam and France A profound antipathy reaches back beyond the Enlightenment

Tom Holland