Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...
By Gillian SchutteThe siege of Leningrad—872 days of relentless bombardment, starvation, and an unforgiving winter that ...