Dempsey and Georges Carpentier clashed in a heavyweight championship bout at Boyle’s Thirty Acres, an outdoor arena located ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Basic Books, £30 PAUL THOMAS CHAMBERLIN, whose book The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation ...

German imperialism already focussed on Russia and Ukraine in the First World War and the Soviet Union in the Second. And just like back then, it endeavoured to dominate Europe in order to achieve ...

Imperialism, war, and the fight for a just world Thousands of demonstrator protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in London, Britain, on October 21, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS ...

PEACE and goodwill to all peoples have never really been part of imperialism’s offer. Indeed, ever since the emergence of monopoly capitalism around 150 years ago, there has probably never been a ...

When the war broke out in eastern Europe in 1939, it seemed a world away from the rice farmers of Java, but events in Poland ignited a chain reaction that killed about 3.5m-4m Indonesians, mostly ...

After World War Two, struggles and calls for independence and self-determination increased all over the colonised world. In addition to the Arab world, movements were sparked in India, Indonesia ...

The war lasted 74 days, resulting in the deaths of 904 military personnel, and ended with the Argentinians surrendering on 14 June.

The second, between the mid-19th century and World War I, saw these powers again engage in aggressive empire-building in Africa, Asia (especially India), and the Americas.

There was, in fact, only one country, one empire, that truly “won” World War II: the United States, which had been the least touched (Pearl Harbor aside) by war and all its horrors.