While their husbands brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers sisters and friends..

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Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

September 1939. For years now Britain has been rudderless divided and grievously unequal. When war b..

On 11th November 1920 huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior..

Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness ..

On capture British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans “For you the war is over”..

For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those y..

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth famil..

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Doctors nurses medics and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for..

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..