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Just twenty years after the War to End All Wars, Britain was once again at war with Germany. With hindsight a second conflagration had seemed inevitable, so did Britain sleepwalk into a world war…
In school and college, many had been exposed to books and scholarship that argued that, by August 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, and that America’s real motivation in dropping the A-bomb was to…
Shortly after 4pm on 18 June 1928, the flying boat carrying the great polar explorer Roald Amundsen on his last expedition was seen by a Norwegian fisherman flying over the Arctic ocean into 'a…
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Buckingham is a small town with a big past, so it is appropriate that it has a first-rate history festival. With world-leading experts, social media sensations, and some of Britain's best-loved…
Dr Robert Lyman is a military historian who has not just written a number of excellent books - the latest being 'Victory to Defeat' in conjunction with General Lord Dannatt - but who has…
There is no getting around it: We Have Ways Fest is niche. In a summer of festivals, many would argue that having an event dedicated to history, let alone to the history of the Second World War, is…
Latest Reviews
Henry Reece’s The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic has a simple premise: to provide a narrative account of the last eighteen months of the English republic, from the death of Oliver Cromwell…
Sally Coulthard’s 'A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects' is just that: as the author herself says, it is ‘a history of the countryside, told through the filter of someone…
'Traders in Men' is eye-opening and thought-provoking; it is a brilliant synthesis of the available information in all its forms; and it is a firm reminder about the lengths the greedy will…