The sky above mid-Kent became a swirling mêlée of fighters closing, banking, and twisting.…
Edited and presented by James Bogle and Andrew Uffindell More than 150 years after its first publication in German, this English translation…
The British had the most sophisticated air-defence system in the world, constructed and directed by a master strategist of modern industrialised warfare.…
by Tom Neil Desperate to join the RAF from the age of 12, Tom Neil makes no bones about the fact that…
You could see the killing zone. You could see yourself driving into it. It was concentrated, organised, measured.…
by Ben Hughes Conquer or Die documents the encounters of 6, 000 British volunteers who sailed across the Mediterranean to aid Simon…
By the time the Blitz began in earnest, more than 2.25 million families had Anderson shelters in their gardens.…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
