The 2024 Duff Cooper Prize for the best non-fiction published in the UK was awarded to Julian Jackson for France on Trial: The Case of…
View More A Forgotten Stain: Marshal Pétain and the Vichy GovernmentTag: French History (Books)
Instructions for British Servicemen in France 1944
This is a fascinating pamphlet issued in 1944 to British servicemen prior to D – Day. It was intended to guide Britons’ behaviour towards the…
View More Instructions for British Servicemen in France 1944WW2: Saving the art treasures
The Nazis during World War 2 seized many of Europe’s art treasures. The Rape of Europa in book and DVD form here is about this.…
View More WW2: Saving the art treasuresThe Roman Empire
The Roman Empire had an extensive roads system that linked the far reaches of its empire. This allows a Roman to travel to UK or…
View More The Roman EmpireBy Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan is an Irishman. These three are his most famous books on WW II. Two of them have been made into famous movies. Why…
View More By Cornelius RyanThe origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict
I have visited the Holy Land twice, on March 2007 and again in Nov 2017. The middle east has always been an area of special…
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