Author: Anthony Richards

Christmas has been regularly celebrated during wartime. From the Christmas truce of 1914 out in no-mans land on the Western Front, to POWs cooking ...

More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Conditions were tough. Ratio...

*Shortlisted for the 2019 Mountbatten Award* We went up on deck and were looking around when the awful crash came. The ship listed so much that ...

When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favourite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later th...

'One of them shouted A Merry Christmas English. We're not shooting tonight. . . . [then] they stuck up a light. Not to be outdone, so did we. Then ...

Operation Overlord, the codename given to the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe in 1944, was arguably the most challenging, complic...

Wars are fought by armies. But they are supported by documents--countless documents--from the first declaration to the final truce. The War on Pape...