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