One of Britain's most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With w

One of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating

The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known: after six years of brutal fighting on land, sea and in the air, the Allied Powers prevailed an

The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then

Tuesday, May 8, 1945: after more than five years at war, the Allied Powers had defeated Nazi Germany. VE Day tells the story of those momentous days, when Victo