Russia

Meeting the Mavericks with Nick Higham

Nick Higham tells us about his vibrant cast of British servicemen who fought to save Baku from the Turks in 1918

Opening the Gates of Hell: Operation Barbarossa with Richard Hargreaves

Richard Hargreaves examines two of the most bloody and significant weeks in all military history

Alexander Pushkin and the City of Death and Beauty

Sinclair McKay explores the significance of one of Russia's great poet's death to the people of Saint Petersburg

The Siege of Leningrad

Prit Buttar on the city that would not surrender

To Besiege a City with Prit Buttar

Prit Buttar on the Nazi siege of Leningrad

Sixer for Twenty-seven Years

What happens when an enemy intelligence officer walks through the door?