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Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stre..

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous es..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..

The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Sovie..

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..

Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first ..

The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires i..

Throughout the occupied territories Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the NazisBased on ..

A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Bri..

We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. I..