Second World War

‘See they don’t let us down when we come back this time ’, called the British soldiers embarking for the D-Day invasion.

An alliance of unlike minds offered hope for the future during Europe’s darkest days.

Britain received more Marshall aid than Germany, but spent much of it propping up a delusion. 

As the Battle of Britain raged overhead, the nation’s women were urged to salvage metal for the war effort. But was it just propaganda?

Imperial Japan’s vast Asian empire became home to more than a million female settlers. Their voices are now being heard.

In the POW camps of the Second World War, soldiers found release – from the conditions and from the all-male company – in female impersonation.

Oral history breathes fresh life into a deadly battle of the Second World War.

The sinking by Japanese aircraft of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in December 1941 and the subsequent loss of Singapore was a grievous blow to British morale. But have historians misunderstood what really happened? 

The War Office’s map of cultural treasures in Rome, 1942.

The key to Germany’s imperial ambition, the North Sea island of Heligoland was transformed into a fortress. By the end of the Second World War, the dream lay in ruins.