Stalingrad
Geoffrey Roberts accounts for the Soviet victory in the greatest battle of the Second Word War.
Second World War
The S.O.E. and the Failure of the Slovak National Uprising
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.
The Vatican Germans and the anti-Hitler Plot
William Frend, later professor of ecclesiastical history at Glasgow University, explained how he influenced the course of European history in 1944.
The Home Guard, 1940-1944
Stephen Cullen reassesses the role of ‘Dad’s Army’.
Trying to Escape Hitler’s Shadow
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.
Winston’s War
Is it history or fiction? Is it better than both, or worse than either? Robert Pearce wrestles with these questions.
British Intelligence and the Nazi Recruit
Stephen Tyas uncovers a skeleton in the closeted world of espionage.
The Eye-Opener of 1939: Or How The World Saw the Nazi-Soviet Pact
George Watson considers how news of a political and moral bombshell was received, particularly by intellectuals on both the Left and the Right.
Alan Turing: Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer
B.J. Copeland and Diane Proudfoot recall the contribution to the war effort in 1939-45 of the British computer scientist.
The Battle of Normandy
Russell Chamberlin introduces the commemorations to the anniversary of the start of Operation Overlord, sixty years ago this month.