WWII
Childhood Under Siege: Growing Up in Wartime Britain
The 1940s in Britain were a tumultuous decade, dominated by the Second World War. While the stories of soldiers on the front ...
World War 2 Timeline: Complete Chronology of WWII Events (1939-1945)
The Second World War, a cataclysmic conflict that engulfed the globe from 1939 to 1945, remains the deadliest and most widespread war ...
Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy and a Nation Awakened
Pearl Harbor – A Look at the Road to War “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy ...
The Commonwealth Contribution to WW2
While it is not often highlighted, men and women from the Commonwealth of Nations made a significant contribution to the war effort ...
The “PQ” Convoys – Hell in the Arctic!
After Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, demanded help and Britain and its allies ...
The Dunkirk Evacuation – Devine Deliverance?
Operation Dynamo was the code name given to the evacuation from Dunkirk, which involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and ...
The Battle of Britain – A Concise Account
The year 2020 saw the 80th anniversary of one the most pivotal conflicts in British history, The Battle of Britain. It takes ...
The Unsung Heroines of WWII: The Women’s Home Guard
Britain’s Unsung Heroes: The Women of the Home Guard The Second World War saw a surge of patriotism in Britain, with citizens ...
Britain’s Wartime Coal Crisis: The Unsung Heroes of the Bevin Boys
The Shadow of War and the Strain on Industry As the ominous clouds of war gathered over Europe and finally erupted in ...