Barry Turner
Barry Turner has written extensively on military history. His books include, Countdown to Victory, Karl Doenitz and The Lat Days of the Third Reich, Suez 1956, The Berlin Airlift 1948 and, most recently, Waiting for War, Britain 1939-1940.
Bohemia, SW3
Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane
Unmasking of a libertine lord
With a wealth of original material, Daniel Smith meets all the requirements of high-class popular history
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Most Read
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
