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Interwar policy and the disaster at Dunkirk, 1940

Jun 04, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Slider, WWII 0

Outgeneralled, the British Army crashed to defeat before the German Blitzkrieg in May 1940. The greatest defeat in British imperial history, it was the price of interwar conservatism. But the...

What is the significance of the Dambusters legend?

May 16, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Slider, WWII 0

MHM Editor Neil Faulkner analyses the RAF’s controversial strategic bombing campaign. What is the real significance of the Dambusters legend? James Holland and I clashed on this question on the...

Churchill: ‘Blood, toil, tears, and sweat’

May 13, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Slider, WWII 0

What’s that quote on the new £5 note? The phrase ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat’ is featured under the portrait of Winston Churchill, and it is a quote...

WWII Berlin in photographs

May 02, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Slider, WWII 0

The Battle of Berlin, fought between 16 April and 2 May 1945, was the last major European offensive of the Second World War. The 17-day Soviet assault centred on the German capital, which suffered a...

5 key reasons Churchill lost the 1945 general election

Apr 18, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Slider, WWII 1

Despite a succession of victories during the Second World War, Conservative leader Winston Churchill faced a crushing defeat in Britain’s 1945 general election – one of the most...

Great Escapes: Roger Bushell

Jan 13, 2017 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, Slider, WWII 0

Patrick Boniface examines the lives of history’s most daring wartime captives. Roger Joyce Bushell was born on 30 August 1910 in Springs, Transvaal, in South Africa. His parents had moved to South...

Blitzed: drugs in Nazi Germany

Dec 09, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Books, Modern, Slider, WWII 0

Hitler almost died of a cocaine overdose, and the Wehrmacht’s blitzkrieg was powered by methamphetamine. These are just two of the areas of investigation in Blitzed, Norman Ohler’s study of the...

Mussolini’s secret time-capsule

Nov 24, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, News, Slider, WWII 0

Classics scholars Hans Lemers and Bettina Reitz-Joosse have produced an critical edition and translation of a forgotten Latin text that reveals the ideological intricacies of Italian dictator Benito...

World’s only portrait signed by Churchill displayed

Oct 13, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, News, Slider, WWII 0

The only portrait that Winston Churchill ever signed has gone on public display for the first time. It was painted by artist Paul Trevillion in 1955. Born in 1934, Paul was a schoolboy during the...

Tukhachevsky: ‘the Red Napoleon’

Sep 06, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Modern, Slider, WWII 0

The Red Army’s Marshal Tukhachevsky was one of the most brilliant, innovative, and influential military theorists since Napoleon Bonaparte. Some military historians believe the Second World War...