THE ROAR OF THE LION – The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches. Review by Mark Barnes
THE ROAR OF THE LION The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches By Richard Toye Oxford University Press ISBN: 978 0 19 964252…
RAF Lakenheath Remains a Legend of the Cold War
The Telegraph shares the story of RAF Lakenheath. RAF Lakenheath is the largest military installation in the country and it is the site where the…
Blog Posts 100 Year Old Journal Entries from a WWI Veteran
The Express shares the story of a WWI hero whose diary will posted online 100 years to the day, each day the entry was written.…
Australians Expected To Follow The Trail From Belgium To Montebrehain In France To Mark The WWI Centenary
Australia did not enter the First World War in Europe until 1916, however, thousands of Australians are expected this year to commemorate the outbreak of…
George Takei: From A WWII Camp To Stardom
As a child, Takei and his family lived in an internment camp in Arkansas, during the Second World War. After the Pearl Harbor attack on…
Orphan 32: Searching For The Orphans Of Saigon
Campbell was only a baby went he was put on a plane to Canada in 1975, during the final days of the Vietnam War. When…
Rare photographs of Hitler’s 1936 Winter Olympics
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) In this regrettable photograph, the Nazi Salute performed by the Canadian Olympic team during the 1936 Winter Olympics…
Friends Who Served Together As WAAF Reunited After 70 Years
Not just that Bessie, 89, and Millie, 90, worked together as WAAF radar operators, but they also lived 12 miles away from each other, without…
Historian Says WWI Might Be Happening Again After All
Historian Margaret MacMillan believes that the modern-day world has many similarities with the build-up to the First World War. The ‘war to end all wars’…
Monongahela airman killed in WWII revered in Holland
During a radio speech she gave from England in 1942, Queen Wilhelmina promised that the Netherlands would never forget those who fought and gave their…
Remains of WWII Aircraft Discovered in Northeast India
Natives living in one of the interior villages in Manipur, India’s northeastern state, discovered the remains of one WWII aircraft. Youth club members of the…
Storms’ Unexpected Find on Westcliff Beach: Nine WWII Bombs
Westcliff Beach, Essex – According to Thames Coastguard, recent storms that hit Britain had dumped unexpected load on a beach in Essex – nine WWII…