World on Fire Episode 1 opens in Manchester, England in October 1940 as sirens warn German planes are in the skies above. The eight-month-long Blitz was a time of great destruction and death across ...
Learn about the real history of World on Fire Episode 2, from women’s often overshadowed contributions both in the French Resistance and Britain’s Auxiliary Territorial Service to which troops joined ...
This article explores Evelyn Dunbar’s career as an official war artist. In 1940, she was asked by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) to document the effects of war on the British home front.
With German U-boats cutting off supplies, Britain had to take drastic measures to survive. This is how rationing shaped life on the WWII homefront. Zelenskyy awaits serious US response to Russia’s ...