Author: Henry Buckton

Salisbury Plain is the UK's largest military training area, measuring approximately 25 miles across and ten miles from top to toe. This book examin...

Between 1942 and 1945, tens of thousands of young American servicemen arrived in Britain. This book is an examination of the way their presence aff...

Those who were children during the Second World War spent their formative years amidst a quite extraordinary succession of events that cannot fail ...

The Allied assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in France, code-named Operation Jubilee, took place on 19 August 1942. It was a battle tha...

The Second World War is so far the only truly global war that has ever taken place. It involved the vast majority of the world’s nations, with the ...

Salisbury Plain is the UK’s largest military training area, measuring approximately 25 miles across and ten miles from top to toe. Thearea includes...

In England today we enjoy a rich diversity of folk traditions, many of which can trace their beginnings back hundreds of years. They stem from ever...

Wiltshire was understandably one of the most militarised wartime counties, encompassing the whole of Salisbury Plain. But the story of Wiltshire at...