Second World War

Judy Urquhart recalls a forgotten use of Colditz Castle after the end of the Second World War – as a prison for German aristocrats.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.

Richard Evans has written two articles for History Review explaining how a modern, progressive country surrendered to a brutal and murderous dictatorship. In the first, he traces Hitler's rise to the Chancellorship.

Geoffrey Roberts accounts for the Soviet victory in the greatest battle of the Second Word War.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

William Frend, later professor of ecclesiastical history at Glasgow University, explained how he influenced the course of European history in 1944.

Stephen Cullen reassesses the role of ‘Dad’s Army’.

F.J. Stapleton stresses that we need to apply as well as understand historiography to assess the impact of the Sondwerg Theory on German Kaiserrich Historiography.

Is it history or fiction? Is it better than both, or worse than either? Robert Pearce wrestles with these questions.

Stephen Tyas uncovers a skeleton in the closeted world of espionage.