In December 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte faced the combined armies of Russia and Austria at the Battle of Austerlitz, also known ...

At Austerlitz, precision met violence. While the infantry pressed forward, six regiments of French heavy cavalry struck hard — breaking the Allied line and turning a close battle into a decisive ...

Lucy. Mary. Hawkeye. Norm. Kramer. Homer. To borrow from the "Cheers" theme song, everybody knows the names of these classic situation comedy characters. In "Sitcom," Saul Austerlitz shows how these ...

The turning point in W.G. Sebald’s latest novel, “Austerlitz,” comes when the title character wanders into the disused Ladies Waiting Room at the Liverpool Street Station in London sometime in the ...

The sitcom is an endangered species. Nielsen reported that just one sitcom was among the top ten regularly scheduled programs last year—and even this was unusual. And unlike in the past, when popular ...

On January 23, 2024, Napoleon was nominated for three Oscars. Be sure to read our review. Napoleon Bonaparte became the ruler of France at age 30, conquered most of Europe before he was 40, and died ...

(Reuters) - Cannons roared and horses' hooves pounded across the battlefield on which French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte won one of his most famous victories as hundreds of people took part in a ...

The latest documentary from the much-acclaimed Sergei Loznitsa looks at visitors to the sites of former Nazi death camps. By Neil Young Few filmmakers have ever segued back and forth between fiction ...

A Jewish scholar crisscrosses Europe as he searches for his forgotten past, with the journey taking him to the edge of his limits. The book is considered one of the most important works of post-WWII ...