In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary says Dr Da..

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In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his ?last gamble? in the snow-covered forests of the Ardennes. H..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

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When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

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The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..