The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
His Finest Hour? Winston Churchill and the War ‘Never has any land found any leader,’ remarked Field Marshal Montgomery, ‘who so matched the hour as did Sir Winston Churchill.’ Fatefully on 10 May 1940 Churchill became Prime Minister. He not only became the country’s...
Anthony Tucker-Jones, the Battle of the Bulge (or Ardennes Offensive) is one of the most famous clashes of the Second World War, and you’ve chosen to write about it from the German perspective. Why do you think we’ve not heard Germany’s side of the story? Well, I...
One cannot but marvel at Adolf Hitler’s quite remarkable audacity when he launched four major operations in the winter of 1944. This was at a time when the Allies were relentlessly advancing on all fronts and his exhausted armies were in a complete state of disarray...
Anthony Tucker-Jones, it seems early on in his life Churchill had big ideas. His paper on invading Russia impressed his school master at Harrow. Did he always have grand strategic plans? To start with no, he struggled to apply himself and was unhappy at Harrow. It was...
While researching my latest book Churchill Master and Commander, one of the more bizarre things I discovered was Churchill’s undying enthusiasm for the use of mustard gas. Britain at the start of the Second World War had 500 tons of the stuff, by the end Churchill had...
