In February 1917, German U-boats launched a savage unrestricted campaign against both Allied and neutral shipping. At its ...

Persecuted, outlawed, imprisoned, shunned. You might think this refers only to the LGBTQ+ community, but their experience is ...

When Hitler was striving for recognition and relevance in the political turmoil of the early Weimar years in Germany he gave ...

In almost forty years in Asia without a home posting, British officer John Cross spent ten of them ‘under the jungle canopy’.

Operation Lustre, the British effort to support Greece against German aggression in World War II has long suffered from a lack of the attention that it really deserves. In fact its reduction to the ...

In the Summer of 1972, 14-year-old Judith Roberts took off for a bike ride within the vicinity of her Staffordshire home. Her body was discovered after a three-day manhunt, concealed from view in a ...

The origin of Pen and Sword Books is closely linked with its sister company, the Barnsley Chronicle; one of the UK's oldest provincial newspapers – established in 1858 – and one of the few weeklies ...

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army ...

The period we call the Second World War, the period from 1939-1945 for the European Theater of War, and 1937-1945 for the Pacific Theater of War, has been the subject of thousands upon thousands of ...

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