Volume 34 Issue 6 June 1984

The Mood of Britain

‘See they don’t let us down when we come back this time ’, called the British soldiers embarking for the D-Day invasion.

Why did Charles I fight the Civil War?

Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him.

The Road to D-Day

Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.