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In the febrile interwar years, one inventor
Flight’s glamorous beginnings
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
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
As the Second World War raged across continents, the US Patent Office quietly issued Patent No 2,292,387 for a ‘Secret Communication System’. The document described an ingenious method for guiding rad
The months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two saw 20th Century Fox release two new films starring Basil Rathbone as the great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as his l
July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows
