Bastille Day: Philip Nord reflects on France’s past
‘What happened to France in 1940 was what happened to every power that went up against Germany in…
Military History
Wellington & The Battle of Waterloo: A Timeline
This year marks the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo – Waterloo200 – a great turning point in…
When Britain Saved the West: The Story of Dunkirk
It has now been 75 years since over 330,000 allied soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk…
The Liberation of the Camps: 8 May 1945, Theresienstadt
By May 1945 all of the concentration and extermination camps across Europe had been liberated. In this final piece…
VE Day Anniversary: A WW2 Round-Up
Friday 8 May is the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the date that marked the end of the…
The Liberation of the Camps: 15 April 1945, Bergen-Belsen
The Bergen-Belsen camp is perhaps one of the best-known of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the…
The Liberation of the Camps: 11 April 1945, Buchenwald
It has been 70 years since the Nazi-led concentration and extermination camps were liberated by the allies. The…
How the British Army’s First World War Shaped its Second
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority…
Those Who Hold Bastogne: To the Rescue
Our final extract from Those Who Hold Bastogne, Peter Schrijvers’ dramatic account of the 1944-5 winter of war,…
Those Who Hold Bastogne: Nuts!
The second of our series of extracts from Those Who Hold Bastogne focuses on the most well-known anecdote…
Those Who Hold Bastogne: Locking Shields
The Battle of the Bulge was Hitler’s last gamble, intended to force the Allies to negotiate a peace…
The Siege of Bastogne: Up Close and Personal
In the harsh winter of 1944-45, the month-long battle for Bastogne, a town with a peacetime population of…
The Great War for Peace: Battle of the Marne
‘Your Majesty, we have lost the war.’ – General Helmuth von Moltke to Kaiser Wilhelm, following the Battle…
The Great War for Peace: the social costs
In this extract from The Great War for Peace, William Mulligan looks at the connection between the outbreak…
Germany and Britain Declare War: August 1914
‘I have the honour, on the instructions of my Government, to inform your Excellency as follows: His Majesty…