Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a Welsh mining village. At 16 she went to ..

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..

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

Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stre..

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

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

Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created..

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened beyo..

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive quriky beautiful and sometimes baff..

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

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..