In his actions and writings, Churchill made General Mackesy the scapegoat for the allied failure to recapture Norway in 1940. Was this a fair assessment? And why did Churchill pursue the cause with such bitterness? Mackesy's son explains.
Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle.
Michael Houlihan claims the Allies could have used Resistance to better effect before and after D-Day.
Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.
Caroline Reed looks at the propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.
The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.
John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?
Geoffrey Warner continues our series on Post-War Reconstruction.
W.A. Coupe on a tabloid paper as a microcosm of Weimar Germany
W.A. Coupe argues that German cartoonists ridiculed Hitler as a Chaplinesque little man, so it was easy not to take him seriously – until it was too late.
