September 5, 1989 • 1h
Fifty years ago this week, Britain declared war on Germany; eight months later the British army was in retreat from the beaches of...Read more
September 12, 1989 • 1h
More than any individual or combination of events, Hitler started the Second World War in Europe. Hitler deceived many people in G...Read more
September 19, 1989 • 1h
The Soviet 'Road to War' is the first major assessment of Stalin's pre-war foreign policy since the start of glasnost. Hitherto un...Read more
September 26, 1989 • 1h
Benito Mussolini has been described as the most popular leader Italy has ever had. He invented Fascism; after the First World War ...Read more
October 3, 1989 • 1h
France ended the First World War victorious but devastated. Over a million and a half young Frenchmen had been killed and much of ...Read more
October 10, 1989 • 1h
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, on 7 December 1941, was called 'a date which will live in infamy' by President Roosevelt. But desp...Read more
October 17, 1989 • 1h
When war broke out in 1939, millions of Americans were determined to stay out of another European conflict. America was isolationi...Read more
October 24, 1989 • 1h
Poland suffered more than any other country in the Second World War. One in six Poles died at the hands of the Nazi occupiers, and...Read more