Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Collaborator in Chief

The trial of Marshal Philippe Pétain was also implicitly a trial of the millions of French men and women who may have disliked the German occupation but who compromised with it and obeyed Vichy.

Bloody Panico

The British Conservative Party was once one of the great popular political movements of Europe. What happened?

The Limits of Press Power

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

An Unexpectedly Modern Monarch

Despite his mundane outlook and stiff conventionality, George V may have ensured the survival of the British monarchy in a turbulent century.

Mogul of Mystery

Robert Maxwell's improbable transformation from yeshiva boy to British media baron and outrageous swindler.

Europe’s Most Terrible Years

For Germans, World War II began with deceit and cruelty and ended in physical and moral desolation.

A Discriminating Dissolute

The Opportunist Triumphant

The First Concentration Camps

Don McCullin’s Art of War

“I do tend to turn my landscapes into battlefields,” photographer Don McCullin says, so that the empty fields, some waterlogged, below Glastonbury Tor, might be the devastated Somme. Even his still lifes of plums and mushrooms have a brooding quality.

‘Feasting with Panthers’

One Hundred Years of Destruction

Bad Company

A Star Is Born

Cruise O’Brien at 100

Conor Cruise O’Brien has been called one of those people whose role it is to be brilliantly wrong, but he was right often enough.

The Rural Vision of Ravilious & Friends

What’s striking, and significant, is the appeal some of the neo-Romantic artists exert today, in an age that has no proper memory of war, and that yearns for what may partly be an imaginary past.

Loving the Vicious Race

With the start of the Vuelta a España on August 19, Chris Froome, who won this year's Tour de France, will be attempting to become the first cyclist to win the Tour-Vuelta double in the same year since 1978.

How Bad Was Tony Blair?

Assessing the former prime minister’s record

Tony Blair’s Eternal Shame

In the end Blair isn’t a messiah or a madman or a monster. He’s an utter mediocrity.

Churchill: Great and Mean