Second World War
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
On mentioning the war
What’s behind our obsession with World War 2?
The meaning of World War Two history
Our responsibility to remember
Hitler’s war — within Germany
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about life on Germany’s home front during the Second World War
Busting the myth of the Phantom Major
Thread by thread, Mortimer unpicks the lies of David Stirling’s life
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
No blueprint for Putin’s War
The lesson of the Soviet-Finnish War warns us against misunderstanding a war in progress
The dying days of Nazi Germany
A growing body of literature deals with the horrors of WWII from a German point of view