Photo: Sir Martin speaking on the Second World War, A Complete History, at Chartwell Booksellers, New York In 1968 when Sir Martin became the “official” Churchill biographer  he gave up, for the most part, teaching.  Yet through his writing his first love of teaching found a new medium.  In the…

Photo: Tower Hamlets Environment Trust plaque, 3 Dock Street, E1 London 875 words/4 ½ minute read In the last week of September 1936 the British Union of Fascists (the BUP) announced its intention to mount a show of strength in the East End of London on the afternoon of Sunday…

Photo: Jews removed from one of the bunkers, May 1943, from Jurgen Stroop’s photo collection, photo copy at Yad Vashem 700 words / 3 ½ minute read The Germans had chosen yet another date in the “Goebbels calendar”, Passover 1943, for the destruction of what was left of the Warsaw ghetto. …