What followed was a series of four wars, spanning three decades. The first Anglo-Mysore War was decisively won by Hyder Ali but his death in 1782 meant the second one was inconclusive. He was ...

Bi Haibo and Mark Aylwin Thomas are joined by Andrew Hicks, a member of the council of the Society for Anglo-Chinese ...

Another recommended book, A Small, Stubborn Town, by Andrew Harding, tells the story of Voznesensk and how its residents resisted Russia’s invasion. The War For Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation ...

Referred to as “Mysore Rockets”, these were deployed against the British in the first three Anglo-Mysore wars and ... in nature and caused by the world war. “The war essentially brought ...

WHAT TO WATCH --Anglo American's De Beers diamond business will be in focus. Earlier this month, the miner said it expected to book an impairment ... threat of a global trade war and questions ...

In this fascinating, fastidiously detailed work, Emerson looks back to the first time that the United Kingdom and Russia competed on the world stage.

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

With Monday marking the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a book for junior high school students in Japan is gaining attention for explaining why wars occur in an easy ...

Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel. Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising ...

By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...

In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes about the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet ...