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“The Navy had always regarded the island as the keystone of victory in the Mediterranean...it should be held at all costs.” Admiral A.B. Cunningham, commander-in-chief Mediterranean Fleet during Operation Pedestal. In the summer of 1942, a small island in the heart of...
The Second World War was probably the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever seen. Historians have always struggled to find words that can convey even a glimpse of its total scale. We give endless statistics – more than 100 million soldiers mobilised, more than...
The Imperial War Museum (IWM) has been publishing their Wartime Classics, novels written by veterans of the Second World War and based on their experiences. The writers very much represent the citizen army, including the actor, Anthony Quayle, and Kathleen Hewitt, the...
Operation Pedestal, by Max Hastings. Review by Robert Lyman. Just when you thought that nothing more could ever be said of a subject, especially the supposedly over-written Second World War, along comes Max Hastings to put you right. Whatever else one might say about...
Radium in the Two World Wars In the late 19th century, German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a previously unknown form of powerful radiation invisible to the human eye. This type of ray, which no one (including Röntgen) fully understood at the time, was so...
It was three minutes past two on the morning of 28 April 1944. A flotilla of American warships was approaching Slapton Sands on the Devon coast in south-west England, a crucial practice exercise in advance of the D-Day landings. Exercise Tiger was a 300-vessel,...
The IWM Wartime Classics series was established in late 2019 with the re-publication of four Second World War novels. Since which, six more have been produced. Each novel is written directly from the author’s own experience of the war. They take the reader right into...
For anyone wanting an insight into the inner workings of the British political and military war effort in the Second World War, Dr Andrew Sangster’s re-appraisal of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke in his new book Alan Brooke : Churchill’s Right-Hand...
The Wolfson History Prize 2021 Rebecca Clifford Rebecca, congratulations on your nomination for the Wolfson History Prize of 2021 from Aspects of History. Why did you choose your particular subject? This is a two-pronged answer. Most important prong, I’ve worked with...
