FOR many it was the most traumatic experience of their young lives — being told to pack a small suitcase, having their name pinned to a jumper, being kissed goodbye by their parents and shipped to a far off town or village to be taken in by strangers. Yet it was a necessity of the age, the only...read more

After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler’s inevitable invasion attempt. For the German army to land across the channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies—the Royal Air Force would have...read more

In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air...read more