If you buy Breakfast at Babs for Christmas from Lulu or Amazon I would be delighted to send you a personalised note by e mail that you...

The day of waiting and discomfort was over. The British Eighth Army – including Australian, New Zealand, South African, Indian, Polish...

Le Chemin de la Liberte (The French Freedom Trail) After the German offensive in May 1940 and the division of France into two parts - an...

SS Volturno was an ocean liner that burned and sank in the North Atlantic in October 1913. She was a Royal Line ship under charter to the...

In Stalingrad Soviet forces were obstinately refusing to budge from their defended positions on the ever diminishing sliver of land they...

The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...

ONE TOUGH OCEAN TWO TOUGH GRANDADS In December 2018, Neil Young and Peter Ketley will attempt to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic as...

Escape from Italy On the 03 September 1943, the Italian Government led by Badoglio (who had replaced Mussolini in July), signed an...

Leo Gradwell DSC was a British barrister, a magistrate and a Second World War Royal Navy volunteer, who in July 1942 against orders, led...

Part of the Third Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Menin Road was a testing place for the British. They countered a tactic that had been...

As it is my Birthday I though I would remember a VC Winner from today who sacrificed his life for others: David Samuel Anthony Lord VC,...

Dutch civilians and veterans of 1st Airborne Division watch as children place flowers on graves at the Arnhem-Oosterbeek Cemetery, 25...

The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near...

On the 12th September the German U boat U-156 torpedoed a passenger ship off the coast of Africa. There was nothing remarkable about that...

In early September 1942 Edward Young was the First Officer on HMS Saracen as she made her way from Britain via Gibraltar to Malta....

Declaration of war Germany invaded Poland in the early morning of 1 September 1939. The British Cabinet met late that morning and issued...

Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud....

High in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea, in treacherous conditions of ankle deep mud the battle for the Kokoda Track again...

In Burma the Monsoon Season had brought a pause in hostilities and the British forces regrouped in India. It comprised elements from...

The mission for Lieutenant Colonel Lord Lovat and No. 4 Commando (including 50 United States Army Rangers) was to conduct two landings 6...