2019 saw two major Second World War Anniversaries: the 75th anniversary of D-Day and that of the largest airborne operation ever mounted, MARKET-GARDEN, Field Marshal
Some commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain are being postponed or cancelled. However, the occasion has been marked in an unusual
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Today on the blog we have a guest post from author Stephen Wynn, whose new book The Lancastria Tragedy is available to preorder now.
Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC and Spitfire! On 21 September 1940, Flying Officer Stanley Devon, an award-winning press photographer whose services the Air Ministry had
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As I write, the world is in turmoil owing to a new disease, which nobody, at least in the western world, had heard of until
How Boris’ idol Churchill faced down pneumonia When Britain’s Boris Johnson became the first world leader to be hospitalised with the coronavirus sweeping the globe,
Today on the blog we have a guest post from Pen and Sword author Douglas Boyd. In this post, Douglas will give us some background
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