Germany’s ‘Little Dunkirk’: Operation Hannibal, January-May 1945
The Kriegsmarine’s last major military undertaking was the evacuation of more than a million German troops and civilians trapped around the Baltic, as David Porter explains.
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The Thirty Years’ War: 1618-1648
Stephen Roberts traces the history of the Thirty Years’ War, Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the First World War.
Berlin: life and loss in the city that shaped the century
Covering the period from the end of the Great War to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, this is a well-researched and very detailed book from a well-known author, whose previous similar book…
German civilians gather around a British tank, Hamburg station, May 1945
This photograph, showing soldiers lounging on their tank and citizens going about their daily business, was taken outside Hamburg railway station in May 1945.
Support for Ukraine’s archaeologists
In collaboration with the European Association of Archaeologists (EEA), the Chartered Institute of Archaeologists (CIfA) are looking to support archaeologists from Ukraine by helping them to make contact with other archaeologists willing to house or employ them. The EEA has…
‘The worst maritime disaster ever’: the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Hitler’s Nazi Empire was in its death agony. Millions of Germans were desperate to escape the fast-advancing Red Army. Richard Selcer reports on a signal catastrophe amid the chaos.
Discoveries in the Judean Desert
The newly discovered fragments consist of over 20 pieces of parchment belonging to the Minor Prophets Scroll, including sections of the books of Zechariah and Nahum.