I am a historian of the Second World War and the aim of this site is to enable others to access some of the research I have carried out over the past few years,
and to encourage people to exchange ideas and views about a wide range of subjects relating to the conflict.
On this site you will find an oral history archive with transcriptions of many of the interviews
I have conducted with veterans of the war from many different countries, and there are also blogs, comment pieces, book reviews,
suggested reading, and also contributions from other leading historians in this field.
I hope you find it interesting.
James Holland
Sarah Helm
Antony Beevor
Geoffrey Wellum
Matthew Parker
George MacDonald Fraser
Michael Ondaatje
Alex Bowlby
Evelyn WaughMarch 20, 2007
This is going to be a very close call. I’m running out of time and have still got to write up the final offensive. I’m definitely going to be a few days later but it simply has to be done by 6 April because I’m going on a week’s holiday then and after that to Norway. Help.
March 12, 2007
Three weeks to go until hand in! And I think I’m just about going to do it as long as I keep tightly to the remaining chapter outlines I’ve plotted out. It’s all making for long days and interrupting our weekends, but at last I’m beginning to feel as though there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Read more…
