Second World War

A newly-published book by Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood illuminates the agonising decisions faced by the Prime Minister during...

Hugh Hunt from Cambridge's Department of Engineering - who recreated the Dambusters raid in 2011 - discusses how engineers made a bomb bounce 75 years...

The untold stories of slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the...

Experiencing traumatic events may be associated with greater mental resilience among residents rather than causing widespread angst, suggests a study...

A stolen chest of letters – penned by an army wife to her husband on the battlefields of the Second World War – has helped a Cambridge academic and...

Moving letters sent by the academic John Crook while he was a prisoner at the notorious Stalag Luft VIII-B camp in World War II reveal his indomitable...

Tristram Riley-Smith (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses how universities and academics can add insight and depth to national...

Winston Churchill’s vast archive – including his wartime speeches, letters to Stalin and three US Presidents – has been added to UNESCO’s...

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the engineering behind the V-3 “supergun”, the weapon that was meant to win the Second World War for...