Devils in the dark

In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn

When Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs on 15 September 1940, it brought the war to the very front door of King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, the Queen consort. Just over two weeks later, the war

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

This fantastic plan, which led the then Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS), Air Vice-Marshal Arthur T Harris, to remark ‘the story, that appears too fantastic for words, might have a fortunate outco

Subordinate to Dr Joseph Goebbels’ Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda) but reporting through the Wehrmacht Propaganda department of O

We will all remember where we were when we first heard the news, when it started trickling through that something had happened on London’s transport network. Initially, there were reports of explosion