Snapshots of gaiety and celebration - the street parties, the victory speeches - are often how we think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of the Second World War were far from a 'gol
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what mi
What happened when millions of British servicemen were demobbed”demobilizedafter World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with am
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what mi
A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were permanently transformed by the Second World War.Here is th