'The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war,' Churchill wrote, 'was the U-boat peril.'…
Symphony No.7 became a national symbol of resistance to the German invasion, and the Soviets were eager to export it to the…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
One of the key questions often asked about Leni Riefenstahl is was she Hitler’s lover? Rumours of an affair were common at…
‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…
Barnes Wallis was one such man. A brilliant aircraft designer with a flair for what we in the 21st-century would glibly call…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
What did cricket mean to troops and civilians during WWII? Crispin Andrews has scoured the MCC library to find out. Even Hitler…
Historian Adrian Greaves has had a lifetime fascination for top Nazi Rudolf Hess. We asked him to explain.…