Letters from the eastern front

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

GOEBBELS’ SPORTPALAST SPEECH

LECHFELD, BAVARIA 10-12 AUGUST 955

KINGDOM OF SAXONY 16-19 OCTOBER 1813

In the final month of WWII, the Red Army launched a devastating strike into Manchuria, opening a new front with Japan and threatening invasion of the Home Islands

THE SECOND WORLD WAR STILL PLAYS A MASSIVE role in our national mythology in Britain. But if I were to ask you: “Who was the fourth ally?” I imagine that most readers would have to think twice. The an