Britain at War November issue – out now!

Featuring:

CHURCHILL’S GUNBOAT
Lying in a dry dock in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, berthed near the new Mary Rose Museum and Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, is a remarkable piece of First World War history – the Monitor HMS M33. We examine the history of one of only three British First World War warships to survive.

A WILDERNESS OF ASHES
When the 11th Armoured Division liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a call was put out for help. One of the ninety-five medical students who volunteered, Michael Hargrave, recorded his experiences.

STUKA SWANSONG
Andy Saunders takes a look at the circumstances surrounding some of the last Junkers Ju 87 Stuka losses sustained during attacks against the British Isles.

THE RAF ON THE AIR
During the Second World War, RAF personnel regularly described their activities on the radio for listeners of the BBC. These broadcasts described their experiences in their own words and in effect provided the human stories behind the official communiqués. Each month we present one of these narratives, an account selected from over 280 broadcasts which were, at the time, given anonymously. In “We Shadowed the Bismarck”, Flying Officer Dennis Briggs recounts the events of 26 May 1941.

THE COST OF RHUBARBS
When Fighter Command went on to the offensive early in 1941, one of the types of missions flown was named Rhubarb. The cost of such sorties to Fighter Command, writes Chris Goss, was high.

SAVING THE CATHEDRAL
On a summer’s night in 1942, the Luftwaffe came within an ace of dealing the most savage blow of the “Baedeker Blitz”. As fires raged on the roofs of Norwich Cathedral, a schoolboy fire party joined the battle to save one of the nation’s greatest architectural treasures. Steve Snelling tells the story of a remarkable wartime fire-fighting operation.

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