The 1st British Airborne Division was very disappointed to miss out on D-Day and the Normandy invasion. A few months later they fought with distinction at a battle that would later lead the participants to say proudly, ‘I fought at Arnhem.’ At 11.30 a.m. on Sunday l7...
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First in, Last Out: US Marines in the Pacific
First in, Last Out On August 12, 1942, five days after the 19,000-strong 1st Marine Division had landed unopposed on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands, the first American ground offensive of the war, Sergeant Jim McEnery came upon the aftermath of a slaughter...
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Black Gold, by Jeremy Paxman
There are two stories that Jeremy Paxman tells in his new book, Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain. The first is the national story, how coal was the driver behind the Industrial Revolution and the British Empire. The country’s hunger for this black rock...
Operation Pedestal: Max Hastings interview with Saul David
In the late summer of 1942, the Royal Navy embarked on an operation to relieve the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. With Axis forces surrounding Malta, the islanders were close to starvation until relief came in the form of Operation Pedestal. But it was an...
The new Military History Club Needs You!
Almost a quarter of a century on from the publication of Antony Beevor’s groundbreaking and prize-winning Stalingrad, military history is still big business with books by Max Hastings, James Holland and my own SBS: Silent Warriors gracing the UK bestseller charts this...