United Kingdom History

American Civil War from The European Perspective

American Civil War The American Civil War was a defining event in US history, but its effects were hardly isolated[…]

Stalin’s Role Presented by Professor David Reynolds. Historian Professor David Reynolds reassesses Stalin’s role in the life and death struggle[…]

Army Bases in Great Britain During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of[…]

How the West Helped Hitler With the increasing aggression of Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s, the League of[…]

Angels One Five (1952) The story of an RAF fighter squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain.

Iconic British Aircraft The Harrier and VSTOL is the focus of this episode. How and why was the first jump[…]

Norwegian Fishing Village A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and[…]

Plan for an invasion of Canada It may seem hard to believe, but in the vacuum of uncertain of geopolitics[…]

Invasion Armies Nearly two thousand years ago most of Britain was a settled province of the Roman Empire. But those[…]

Why the Spitfire was Such a Deadly Fighting Machine In the 1930s, Nazi Germany built the fastest and deadliest planes[…]