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


Talking point - Sunday 15th July 2007

Driving through Italy in a Wartime Jeep

It was supposed to be a battlefield tour – eight men and four wartime jeeps – following in the footsteps of the Coldstream Guards as they fought their way through Tuscany and the Apennines in the last year of the war. Suddenly, however, as we trundled clear of the back streets on the southern bank of the River Arno, we realised the traffic had been halted and we were being ushered between a stream of Ferraris, Alfas and Maseratis. Seamlessly, and unintentionally, we had joined the Mille Miglia in Florence instead. Read more…

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