In early 1943, while at Harvard, Jean Claude was drafted into the Army. He was surprised to find life there more to
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Read More »In the post-war years, they were remembered on monuments and in cemeteries, ‘made present’ by absence, by anonymity rather than by naming.
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Read More »Thirty years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews have resulted in this fast-paced book seeing the light of day –
Read More »Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while
Read More »Like the first volume, Britain’s War is not a military history, although the great battles of the war are described in some
Read More »The approach is admirably interdisciplinary, blending traditional archaeological fieldwork with historical documentation, and analysis of 38 photographs from the 15th International Brigade.
Read More »REVIEW – Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: how a British civil servant helped cause the Second World War
Adrian Phillips gives us a new and fascinating angle on the whole sorry saga of miscalculation and moral surrender that led up
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