WWII

Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine

Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany

If Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain had succeeded he would have found accomplices as fanatical as those in Europe

Pronouns day, Unknown soldier wasn’t black, tampons go woke and the BBC is hijacked by impartiality rules

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society

How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union

Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels

Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe

Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others

Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich