Noor Inayat Khan and Christine Granville both came to Britain immediately before the war broke out and served in their adopted home
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Karlsruhe led the German attack on Kristiansand during Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940, as part of the Nazi invasion of Norway.
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Consisting of figures such as Rob Bernays, Jack Macnamara, Harold Nicolson, and Ronnie Cartland (brother of Barbara), the ‘Glamour Boys’ came of
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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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Rob Johnson’s achievement in this book is to take Colonel T E Lawrence seriously as a theoretician and practitioner of war, and
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Henoch displayed a natural all-around talent in several sports, making her future accomplishments even more impressive, considering the few opportunities available for
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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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As Churchill liked to say, to defeat the Nazis the Russians gave their blood, the Americans their money, and Britain held out
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After the war, flak would also come to mean very strong criticism or abuse.
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The collection of letters, telegrams, and instructions was the property of the late Reginald Parker. It was found by a furloughed clerk
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