Akram Ojjeh built his fortune as a middleman for French arms sales to Saudi Arabia, up until his death in 1991. The legal ...

In the shadowy Mediterranean of late 1942, HMS Seraph sliced through Axis-dominated waters flying the Stars and Stripes, not the White Ensign. Onboard, an unusual scene unfolded: her British crew, ...

In 1942, with World War 2 raging across continents, the island of Madagascar emerged as a pivotal prize in the struggle for control over the Indian Ocean. Governed by the Vichy French, Madagascar’s ...

UVA president Jim Ryan's resignation under pressure from Donald Trump's administration recalls warnings from Thomas ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

L ast Friday, I received a message from James E. Ryan, president of the University of Virginia. At first, I thought it would ...

In this month’s picks, a look back at a city in France during the Nazi occupation, an assessment of a renowned gay politician ...