Britain's Finest Hour or Hitler's Greatest Hoax
Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind: his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe.
Second World War
Why Chamberlain Really Fell
Tony Corfield offers a provocative new interpretation of the events that brought Churchill to power in the spring of 1940.
Radio Days on America's Home Front
Gerd Horten on how 'soaps' helped win the war after Pearl Harbor.
The Battle of the River Plate
Clive Coultass recounts tales of derring-do and chivalry in the making of this Second World War naval epic
Who Voted For Hitler?
David Welch attributes the Nazi leader's electoral success to much more than slick propaganda.
Truman and the Bomb
Alonzo Hamby considers Harry Truman's First World War experiences and explores the dilemmas that influenced his decision to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hashude - An Experiment in Nazi 'Asocial' Policy
Half-way to the concentration camps? Lisa Pine uncovers a little-known project from 1930s Germany used as a last-chance option for 'asocials' who fell foul of the Nazi regime.
India's Divided Loyalties?
Peter Heehs looks at the Indian army who threw in their lot against the Raj and with the Japanese in the Second World War.
A People Without A State: Germany after VE Day
From Hitler's suicide to the Berlin blockade - Friedemann Bedurftig looks at the consequences of defeat, the process of denazification and reconstruction and the growing Cold War tensions between the former Allies in charge of the ruins of the Third Reich.
Stalin and the Allies: Who Deceived Whom?
In the first of our contributions from the Russian magazine Rodina, Sergei Kudryashov charts the twists and turns of the Soviet leader's tricksy diplomacy with his Western comrades-in-arms and its impact on the war effort.