The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain ..

In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA story at once extremely strange and en..

Picking up from where his first memoir left off Dr Tom is back with more of his gloriously eccentric..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..

Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies packed his notepad and set off in search of B..

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..

Written nearly 50 years ago Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook conjures up a time when addressing..

When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..