Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin sit together at the Potsdam Conference in 1945.

How modern wars end

History offers options rather than predictions for how the Russia-Ukraine war could end

Artillery Row Podcast

In this episode of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Short History of War, talks to The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how wars are brought to a conclusion.

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