Driven by his passion to research and share the stories of casualties, and record the human experience of war, Dilip Sarkar MBE is a best-selling
Seventy-five years ago, the formal announcement of the end of the Second World War in Europe on 8 May 1945 was one of the major
MALTA George Cross Island ‘Sleeping or waking Malta is always in my thoughts’, so said Admiral Lord Nelson during the Napoleonic Wars. With the rise
A Re-evaluation of U-853’s Final War Patrol within the Evolving U-Boat Operations and Tactics of ‘Total Undersea War’ By Aaron Stephen Hamilton The published historical
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
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THE DOOLITTLE RAID The First Strike Against Japan, April 1942 Just over two years ago, in January 2018, I was stood on Runway Able at
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
The Mystery of the Medway U-boats: solved. Aidan Dodson University of Bristol Among the mud-flats of the Medway estuary rest the remains of three First
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