Noor Inayat Khan and Christine Granville both came to Britain immediately before the war broke out and served in their adopted home…
Karlsruhe led the German attack on Kristiansand during Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940, as part of the Nazi invasion of Norway.…
Consisting of figures such as Rob Bernays, Jack Macnamara, Harold Nicolson, and Ronnie Cartland (brother of Barbara), the ‘Glamour Boys’ came of…
In early 1943, while at Harvard, Jean Claude was drafted into the Army. He was surprised to find life there more to…
Rob Johnson’s achievement in this book is to take Colonel T E Lawrence seriously as a theoretician and practitioner of war, and…
Henoch displayed a natural all-around talent in several sports, making her future accomplishments even more impressive, considering the few opportunities available for…
In the post-war years, they were remembered on monuments and in cemeteries, ‘made present’ by absence, by anonymity rather than by naming.…
As Churchill liked to say, to defeat the Nazis the Russians gave their blood, the Americans their money, and Britain held out…
After the war, flak would also come to mean very strong criticism or abuse.…
The collection of letters, telegrams, and instructions was the property of the late Reginald Parker. It was found by a furloughed clerk…