The very great escape

Unlike most World War Two veterans who immortalised themselves in print, Eric Williams was no “one-book wonder”, instead producing two bestselling novels based on a mere 10 months as a prisoner of war

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

In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc

Eben Muse is the British Mountaineering Council’s policy and campaigns officer and an ambassador for the Campaign for National Parks. Fresh from a mass swim trespass at Kinder Reservoir, he argues that the nation’s reservoirs should be open for public enjoyment

Your cruising destinations, near and far

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