To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine as it lifted off from the ...

The orphaned Philadelphia Austen was forced to seek for herself those objects of eighteenth-century womanhood: social esteem and financial independence. Her story is circumscribed ...

Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, ...

According to Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Fighter Command’s Commander-in-Chief during the Battle of Britain, the contest began on 10 July 1940. This, his Lordship admitted in his Despatch published ...

On October 11, 2024, National Geographic Magazine reported on the most momentous news in the history of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, since the discovery of Mallory’s body in 1999. Sometime during ...

Under cloudless blue skies, the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama hosts the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the United States. Most of the graves contain young RAF ...

The Type VIIC U-boat, U-202 ‘Innsbruck’, skippered by Kapitänleutnant Hans-Heinz Lindner had left Lorient in Brittany on 26 May 1942 and was heading west, running on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean ...

In the early hours of 10 May 1940, Hitler’s armed forces launched their invasion of France and the Low Countries. Shattering the tense peace of the Phoney War, German troops poured west over the ...

On 7 October 2023, a new chapter of the Israel-Palestine conflict began, plunging the already fragile region into another cycle of violence. This date is now etched in the memories of many, as the day ...

Having turned away from targeting 11 Group’s Sector Stations at a critical, if not decisive, moment, and instead bombed London round-the-clock, partly in retaliation for Bomber Command attacking ...