The fight up the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc and the battle across Omaha Beach were spearheaded by a relatively new type of unit: Army Rangers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was not a game changer’ in World War II – and Soviet media delivered that message starting the day after the invasion.
Winston Churchill defected in his time, as did Oswald Mosley. In fact, a defection played a key part in the formation of the Conservative party.
The NATO summit is a chance for world leaders to hash out difficult topics, like the war in Ukraine – and for the US to show off its leadership, writes a former diplomat.
Both Churchill and Johnson had a complicated relationship with the Conservative Party.
Tariq Ali’s scathing new book assessing Winston Churchill’s life and legacy paints him as a racist opportunist but overstates Churchill’s enduring influence on politics today.
The UK prime minister tendered his resignation after a slew of resignations by former allies in his government.
Oversimplified versions of the past lead to bad political decisions.
History brought Ukraine’s plight home to people around the world, and helped mobilize political and military support against the Russian invasion.
Computers can now mimic everything from literary characters to Nirvana songs.
Lend-lease is a mechanism that will help speed the delivery of military aid to the battlefields of Ukraine.
An expert on the history and politics of the UN says that the Security Council’s failure to intervene in Ukraine is a “black eye,” but the panel’s inability to act is not a design flaw.
The way two presidents used language to ask Americans to support intervening in a foreign conflict shows the power of a leader who uses plain speaking – and sets limits on intervention.
Exclusive footage of the clandestine bunkers from which Britain hoped to halt a Nazi invasion.
Likely survival rates for these men were judged to be as low as 12 days, which may be why OBs were sometimes referred to as ‘Suicide Bunkers’.
In 1944, the former archbishop of Canterbury mounted a case to preserve the Italian abbey, renowned for centuries for scholarship and devotion, but Allied forces had just destroyed it.
Even a highly popular and respected leader can lose an election, writes a historian – especially if they don’t have a plan for the future. Churchill was one of them.
It’s always dangerous to put present-day events into historic perspectives. That’s especially true when political leaders have compared the coronavirus pandemic to a war effort.
PODCAST: The fourth part of a series from The Anthill Podcast on how the world has recovered from past crises examines the aftermath of the second world war in the UK.
From Brexit to coroanvirus, Britain keeps looking to the second world war and its spirit as a way to get through. However, the ideas of the period are not so close to the truth.
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Professor and Lecturer in Military History, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Reader in Forensic Geoscience, Keele University
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Lecturer in Forensic Science, Keele University
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Teaching Fellow, History Department, Case Western Reserve University
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Lecturer in history, University of Sydney
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Lecturer in International History, Aberystwyth University
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