The RAF base is also where Glenn Miller flew from before he went missing over the English Channel ...
Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.
Top 10: Worst aircraft of World War 2 ...
In mid-1940, a few months after Winston Churchill became prime minister of the United Kingdom, he analyzed Royal Air Force bombing reports on Germany and concluded that conventional bombs filled with ...
Is our civilisational decline terminal? Many signposts point in that direction, from economic stagnation to welfarism, from cultural impoverishment and falling literacy to the parlous state of our ...
Bring back the Royal Shah and rename Iran as Persia to signal the death knell for Islamic radicalism in the region - these ...
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The Mustang and the Merlin

The story of how British innovation and American production combined to create the Merlin-powered P-51 Mustang, the long-range fighter that secured air superiority over Germany in WWII.
During World War II, British women were factory workers, codebreakers, spies and air raid wardens. How did such roles contribute to the Allies’ victory?
On March 8, International Women's Day honors Artemisia, Joan of Arc, and modern warriors like Leigh Ann Hester who shattered combat barriers.
The FBI is investigating a car ramming attack on a large Detroit-area synagogue Thursday as a "targeted act of violence ...
There was a Teutonic version of the ‘stiff-upper-lip’ Blitz spirit. But one big difference between our experience and the Germans’ was obvious. Berliners had two enemies: Allied armour and their own ...
Emily said: “The ceiling downstairs is seven-foot-thick steel-reinforced concrete. It was built to be completely bombproof, and the building above is reinforced all the way to the top.” Despite its ...