reviews

Sabotage and intelligence: meet the women who made D-Day happen

The Free State of Bavaria: the extraordinary rise and fall of the ‘writers’ republic’

Aviation’s first love triangle scandal: The story of The Lost Pilots

‘I don’t feel guilty. Why would I?’: the chilling memories of Goebbels’s secretary

Among the Living and the Dead

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Monuments to the Second World War are looking increasingly dodgy

Female partisans played a vital role in fighting fascism in Italy — but it was a thankless task

How Britain conned the US into entering the war

The Lady with the Limp: homage to the one-legged Virginia Hall, SOE’s ‘most dangerous’ agent

Anita Leslie: sparkling socialite with the Croix de Guerre

The CIA, the Vietnam deserters and the aptly named Operation Chaos

Six of the best female spies in Nazi-occupied France

Bogdan Stashinsky: the inspiration for The Man with the Golden Gun

Mud, blood and war crimes on both sides – the struggle for the Ardennes was one of the bitterest of the second world war

Keeping up appearances in 1940s Paris

The History of Modern Germany Within Four Walls

Was Operation Thunderbolt the most daring mission in history?

Reliving the most famous last stand of the French Resistance

‘Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees’, by Edward Stourton – review

The spy who loved (a lot): Moura Budberg’s life reads like a thriller — and may have been more interesting than she was herself

She Landed by Moonlight, by Carole Seymour-Jones – review

An enthralling study of the power of aerial women and their challenge to patriarchy

A Jewish woman’s journey through Nazi Germany and Vichy France to safety in Switzerland

No Husband Needed – I Fly a Spitfire

Churchill’s Mavericks: Plotting Hitler’s Downfall

Alan Turing Decoded

The Death and Life of a Female Spy in the First World War

The Spy with 29 Names

The Woman who Spied for Britain

Noble Endeavours

Carve Her Name with Pride

Agent Rose

Women of RAF Tempsford