Winston Churchill: Leadership in the Darkest Hour
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Hitler. How Churchill and the RAF pilots won the Battle of Britain.
Poland 1939: Forgotten Bravery at the Start of World War II
At dawn on 1 September 1939, the world held its breath. Poland, a nation reborn from the ashes of the First World War, became the epicentre of a storm that would engulf the globe. The German invasion, followed by the treacherous Soviet aggression, was not merely the...
Aracy De Carvalho: The Angel of Hamburg
Aracy de Carvalho defied Brazil’s antisemitic secret circular and saved hundreds of Jews from persecution by the Third Reich.
Deconstructing the Myth of Russian Sacrifice in the Second World War
With the breaking of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact during the Second World War, Operation Barbarossa began, the codename for the largest military campaign in history in terms of troops mobilised and casualties suffered. In January 1942 the Soviet photographer Dmitri...
Oradour-sur-Glane: The Massacre Frozen in Time
In the heart of France, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane remains an open wound in the landscape and in Europe's collective memory. On 10 June 1944, only four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, a detachment of the 1st Battalion of the 4th Panzergrenadier...
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