Blog Posts

Neville Chamberlain Did the Wrong Thing

Neville Chamberlain Did the Wrong Thing

Revisiting the appeasement debate, the Munich Agreement, and why I believe Britain and France should have stood up to Hitler in 1938.

British Sport during the Second World War

British Sport during the Second World War

How war disrupted Britain's sporting calendar, claimed the lives of leading athletes, and changed the careers of sportsmen who served between 1939 and 1945.

Ten Favourite Authors of Second World War Fiction

Ten Favourite Authors of Second World War Fiction

A personal reading list of ten favourite novelists writing before, during, and after the Second World War.

Collaboration in the Second World War

Collaboration in the Second World War

How occupied nations balanced survival, ideology, and betrayal--and how post-war reckoning reshaped Europe's memory of collaboration.