Author: Norman Ridley

Following the end of the First World War, the newly reformed state of Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany a...

War is a costly business and in 1939, Germany was almost broke with its economy overheating and heading for runaway inflation. Hitler needed hard f...

The First World War had seen the mechanisation of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilised in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, le...

On 19 December 1938, Otto Hahn, working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, conducted an experiment the results of which baffl...

Most strongly associated with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is often stated that Britain's policy of appeasement was instituted in the 193...

Almost since the advent of warfare, civilians have suffered collateral damage', but the concept of Total War - a war without limits - only surface...

The Battle of Britain was fought between two airborne military elites and was a classic example of pure attack against pure defence. Though it was ...