Fire from the sky

Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dead. As the 80th anniversary of the attacks approaches, Stephen Walker, one of the last writers to interview them, revisits what they told him

To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War will be taking a look at some of the key events taking place during each month of the conflict

V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

Since 1940 Japan had been devoid of civilian politicians as the parties had been dissolved by the militaristic Imperial Rule Assistance Association, led by Lt General Hideki Tojo. Over the intervening

Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City ...

Wyndham Lewis’s pro-fascist polemical novel was enabled by a left-wing writer