To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine ...

Under cloudless blue skies, the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama hosts the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the United States. Most ...

The orphaned Philadelphia Austen was forced to seek for herself those objects of eighteenth-century womanhood: social esteem and financial independence. Her story is circumscribed ...

Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, ...

The Type VIIC U-boat, U-202 ‘Innsbruck’, skippered by Kapitänleutnant Hans-Heinz Lindner had left Lorient in Brittany on 26 May 1942 and was heading west, running on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean ...

On 7 October 2023, a new chapter of the Israel-Palestine conflict began, plunging the already fragile region into another cycle of violence. This date is now etched in the memories of many, as the day ...

Having turned away from targeting 11 Group’s Sector Stations at a critical, if not decisive, moment, and instead bombed London round-the-clock, partly in retaliation for Bomber Command attacking ...

Mention the name ‘Brooklands’ to most people and you will either get a blank look or at best a recollection of it being something to do with motor racing. Very few will respond with knowledge of its ...

Heinkel He 111s on their way to attack targets in southern England. After the turning point on 15 September 1940, when it was clear that the RAF remained undefeated, Hitler postponed his proposed ...

In the early hours of 10 May 1940, Hitler’s armed forces launched their invasion of France and the Low Countries. Shattering the tense peace of the Phoney War, German troops poured west over the ...

When Hitler came to power in 1933 he promised the German people a technocratic state where science, technology and education would grow and flourish. Unfortunately, any attempts to achieve such a goal ...