D-Day Propaganda
Caroline Reed looks at the propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.
Second World War
The Resistance in France
The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.
The Liberation of Europe: A Bridgehead Too Late?
John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?
Belgium, France and Italy 1944-1950
Geoffrey Warner continues our series on Post-War Reconstruction.
The Nazi Gutter Press
W.A. Coupe on a tabloid paper as a microcosm of Weimar Germany
Adolf Hitler and the Cartoonists
W.A. Coupe argues that German cartoonists ridiculed Hitler as a Chaplinesque little man, so it was easy not to take him seriously – until it was too late.
Before Hiroshima: The Bombing of Japan 1944-45
Gordon Daniels on the sustained bombardement of the Japanese mainland, prior to the use of the Atomic bombs.