Chevaliere d’Eon or Chevalier d’Eon? An 18th-century legal dispute between two French spies unravelled into a public battle ...

Kashmir, a small valley in the Himalayas, plays an outsized role in the national imaginations of both India and Pakistan.

It is ironic that while to most people today the too rampantly over everything, to his own name ‘Bougainville’ suggests only an un- generation in England as well as in France distinguished tropical ...

“‘The newcomer to Aden,’ says an official pamphlet, ‘this famous fortress and port presents rather a forbidding aspect.’ This is, I think, an understatement,” writes James Morris. 1 “At first sight ...