On 14 June 1940, Paris fell to the German Army. The British author Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary.…
Based on his published letters,1940 was a busy year for T.S.Eliot. He was based in London and working at Faber…
Hope I'm not jumping the gun here but the #1940Club starts next week and I've been gearing up and getting…
In Our Flag Stays Red (1948) Phil Piratin - the Communist Party MP for Mile End - wrote an account…
Few things in this war have been more morally disgusting than the present hunt after traitors and Quislings. At best…
George Orwell had an interesting chance encounter with a blasé conspiracy theorist at the Café Royal in 1940. (See left). The young…
When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…
Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…
The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…
1940 has been well served by blockbuster movies this past year. Last summer there was Dunkirk as legendary saga and…
After early mist the morning of Sunday August 18 1940 was bright with clear skies. It came to be known…
The land army fights in the fields. It is in the fields of Britain that the most critical battle of…