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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
EATURES BOMBER COMMANDa€ S LAST HERO Seventy years ago this month, South African Lancaster pilot Captain a€~Teda€ Swales scaled peaks of valour and earned Bomber Commanda€ s last Victoria Cross of the war in a raid on Pforzheim. FRONT LINES Letters from loved ones were vital to the morale of troops in the First World War as they were to families back home. We take a look at the British Postal Museum Archive. THE CHIANTI RAIDERS We look at an episode in November 1940 when the Italian Air Force took part in an ill-fated raid on Britaina€ s east coast a€ bringing with them red wine as well as bombs! FROM POST OFFICE TO PRISONER Life in the Stalag prisoner camps was tough and not at all like its usual portrayal in film, as we see in this sobering account of ordinary Tyneside soldier POW, Jim Laidler. SIDESHOW IN SYRIA The extraordinary adventures of HMS Doris in 1915 and her intrepid commander during a little-known episode of the First World War. BREAKING THE LINE The remarkable story of taking the St Quentin Canal in September 1918 a€" a key factor in breaking Germanya€ s infamous Hindenburg Line. Q CENTRAL Cloaked in secrecy, its existence unknown until quite recently, this is the fascinating story of Britaina€ s Second World War communications nerve-centre at Leighton Buzzard. DEFENCELESS Impassioned pleas to the Government for adequate protection from bomber attack were made by the city of Leicester as it reeled under the onslaught of the Blitz. BRINGING UP THE REAR In the relentlessly cruel war of the Atlantic, merchant seamen faced almost certain death if their ships were sunk a€" unless they could be picked up by designated a€~Rescue Shipsa€ . This is the tale of one, the SS Stockport. REGULARS BRIEFING ROOM News, Restorations, Discoveries and Events from around the world. NEWS FEATURES Christmas Truce commemorations, VC news, Italian SOE operative and more. FIELDPOST Your letters and emails, including fascinating POW football medallion charity shop a€~finda€ . RAF ON AIR: A BATTLE OF BRITAIN a€~GUINEA PIGa€ The graphic account given to the BBC by an RAF fighter pilot shot down and badly burned in 1940 a€" Richard Hillary. SAVE IN A FIRE The curator of Churchilla€ s country home, Chartwell, selects the object she would reach to save in the event of a fire. FIRST WORLD WAR DIARY The Great War continues its inexorable global growth as charted in our monthly series. GREAT WAR GALLANTRY In our month-by-month commemoration of medal awards we reach February 1915 and Lord Ashcroft selects a VC winner. DATES THAT SHAPED WORLD WAR TWO The events of February 1945 examined. RECONNAISANCE REPORT Special interest new books, including fascinating record of Falklands logistics. IMAGE OF WAR Unexploded bomb at St Paula€ s Cathedral, London. THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN OBJECTS A poignant farewell message thrown from a railway carriage by a British a€~Tommya€ .
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