Book review — second world war history

The coldest war of all: sabotaging the Nazis in Norway

11 January 2020 9:00 am

Anyone mildly interested in the second world war probably knows two things about our wartime alliance with Norway, following its…

Our gallant second world war pigeons have been unjustly ridiculed

17 March 2018 9:00 am

Operation Columba was one of the most secretive arms of British Intelligence during the second world war. Between April 1941…

Ethnic cleansing and the horrors of Buczacz

20 January 2018 9:00 am

I thought I knew the history of the years 1914 to 1945: the first world war and the terrible casualties…