Three nights of unrelenting bombing destroyed Dresden in 1945. As snow fell at the weekend, neo-Nazi supporters took to its ...

This question has become more important during the last 100 years because a century ago most ... those killed in war were civilians. The general rule is that only those people fighting you are ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC. Only the threat of invasion by a foreign enemy made the Greeks forget their quarrels and fight on the same side.

In other places along the front, the fighting continued. Overall, the truce was a heartening case study in the nature of human beings and their capacity to wage war on one another. "By midday ...