Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers…
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Second World War Reading List
Explore a curated list of books on Second World War History, offering critical perspectives on one of the most significant periods in modern history….
Fairytale of Rothenburg – Marek Kohn
Marek Kohn, the author of The Stories Old Towns Tell, describes the Christmas market in the medieval German town of Rothenburg and reveals a…
Walter Mattner and the Murder of Jewish Infants – by Dr Alex J. Kay
Dr. Alex J. KaySenior Lecturer at the Chair of Military History / Cultural History of Violence, University of Potsdam and author of, Empire of…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Second World War
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
Mussolini and Hitler – Christian Goeschel
Christian Goeschel- On 20 July 1944, a bomb exploded in the Wolf’s Lair, Adolf Hitler’s East Prussian Headquarters. The Nazi leader survived. Hours later,…
The First Victory: An Introduction
Andrew Stewart introduces his new book The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign, a riveting account of the long-overlooked achievement…
The Battle of Britain: The Battle Won
‘How did the British achieve this victory? Statistics can often illustrate the decline of one side as against the other. Here the statistics tell…
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, rejoins the fight as General Patton…
Those Who Hold Bastogne: Nuts!
The second of our series of extracts from Those Who Hold Bastogne focuses on the most well-known anecdote of the siege: General McAuliffe’s one…
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 treaty by punching a hole in…
Who was The Literary Churchill?
The image of Winston Churchill as a statesman is familiar to all, the former soldier striding down blitzed streets with a defiant V for…
The Nine Lives of Bayes’ Rule
While a staple in modern-day statistics classes, Bayes’ rule, as immortalized in our statistics textbooks, has been killed and revived several times. Although public…
Author Article by Evan Mawdsley: Countdown To Global War, Part Four – Pearl Harbor and the ‘Day of Infamy’
In the fourth part in our series Countdown to Global War, Evan Mawdsley, author of December 1941 discusses the pivotal events which took place seventy years ago today….
Author Blog by Philip Bell: Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War is a gripping new look at this enormously significant global conflict. The book’s author, historian P.M.H BELL,…