The beginning of the end – lessons from D-Day for today’s political class
Hitler’s reich may not have lasted a thousand years, but a decades-long one was foreseeable as those troops set off from the coast of southern England on 6 June 1944.
veterans
Remember those that shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old
Remembrance Day is always a day that makes one particularly melancholic and not just for the most obvious reasons. In many respects Remembrance Day is meant to be a celebration rather than a time of sorrow and mourning; who can doubt the joy that many hundreds of thousands would have felt in 1918 when one of the most harrowing conflicts in modern history finally came to an end?