The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
There have been so many biographies of Ian Fleming that surely there cannot be room for yet another? But Oliver Buckton has demonstrated that there is. Through his extensive research he has succeeded admirably in providing an extraordinary major new study of Fleming...
Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop the bomb on Japan is inevitably controversial. The events of 6th August 1945, as ‘Little Boy’ was unleashed on Hiroshima, are brilliantly and tragically described by Saul David in Crucible of Hell. It is unpleasant to read of the...
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World As we have discovered in January 2020, words matter. They matter even more when spoken by powerful men and women. I write this in the context of the dying days of Donald Trump’s presidency, when his words have incited...
There are iconic images of the end of the Second World War: the Soviet army reclaiming the Reichstag; jubilant sailors embracing their girls; women paraded semi-naked, heads shaved, a placard of shame around their necks. These were the ‘horizontal collaborators,’ the...
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Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on Amazon From the Publisher Osprey Publishing has been providing books for enthusiasts since 1968 and since then it has grown, evolved and taken on new challenges until it stands today...
Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on Amazon From the Publisher Casemate Publishers is one of the leading publishers in the fields of military history, defense studies, and military science worldwide. We are dedicated to...
In short, Operation Mincemeat is a musical about the great deception by the Allies in WW2 to convince the Germans that British and American forces would land in Sardinia rather than Sicily, when advancing on Italy. The act of misdirection was achieved through the...
Keith Lowe, a prominent author of works on the Second World War, examines nations’ architectural remembrances of the conflict in this timely book. Though the 'Rhodes Must Fall Campaign' gained immense traction last summer, and over the past few years Poland has...
From Keith Lowe, author of Prisoners of History Over the past year there has been a great deal of controversy about statues and other monuments. Why do you think we have been getting so emotional about them? Have monuments always been this controversial? No, monuments...
