Marc Tiley

Harold WIlson with Lyndon B. Johnson, 15 April 1965. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

Britain, the Vietnam War, and the Special Relationship

Though Harold Wilson’s government rejected US requests to send British troops to Vietnam, Britain did not stay out of the war.

The Third Reich’s Bank of England

For the duration of the Second World War, the British fought a covert battle against a large-scale influx of forged bank notes that threatened to bust the economy. Marc Tiley traces the story of the largest counterfeiting scheme in history.