World War Two
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The ways of war
Geopolitics in understanding World War Two
Half a century of the World at War
It was then the most expensive documentary ever made and, many think,the greatest
Travel and terror — trains in World War Two
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
Searching in vain for Hitler’s lethal edict
These two new histories of the holocaust add little to what is already known
The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life