“War,” says Nazi Theoretician Ewald Banse, “is above all things a geographical phenomenon. It is tied to the surface of the earth; it derives its material sustenance from it, and moves purposefully ...

Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present. By combining a wide geographical compass with a relatively short ...

Historically, Eastern Europe has been a zone of conflict shaped by outside influences originating from east and west that have swept across the region in alternating waves each heralding a new ...

An extended view, from 1 AD to 2000 AD. If you click it will get bigger and easier to read. Euratlas The most recent millennium of European political history was wrought with war and conquest. Borders ...

Ukraine's spreading protests are clearly tied to a modern dilemma: Should the country's allegiance lie with President Vladimir Putin's Moscow, or with the European Union? Yet a look back into its ...