History Extra logo
The official website for BBC History Magazine
  1. Home
  2. Period
  3. Second World War

Second World War

Premium
Podcast-Website-large-Aug-2017-Mariko-Oi-36a04d9
Membership

The Last Kamikazes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

El Alamein battle in the Libyan desert, c1942. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Membership

El Alamein: the line in the sand

Historical novelist Robert Harris, whose latest book 'Munich' explores the events at the 1938 Munich Conference. (Alamy)
Membership

Neville Chamberlain is underestimated, argues author Robert Harris

Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Podcast-Website-large-Robert-Harris-17c0a43
Membership

The Munich Conference . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Winston Churchill and home secretary John Anderson leave 10 Downing Street, London, after a War Council meeting in May 1940. (Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Membership

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?

Premium
Italian writer Primo Levi sitting at a desk in his study. Turin, 1981. (Photo by Sergio del GrandeMondadori PortfolioMondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
Membership

My history hero: Primo Levi (1919–87) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wireless_main-06b15d8
Second World War

The wartime wireless and the lost voice of Cyril Lakin

Premium
Podcast-Website-large-Aug-2017-Clair-Wills-53750ea
Membership

Migrating to Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Premium
Podcast-Website-large-Aug-2017-Hans-van-der-Ven-093350d
Membership

China in World War Two . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Advertisement MPU index
Crew members of the French destroyer Bourrasque, sunk by mine at Dunkirk, are hauled aboard a British vessel from their sinking life-raft. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Membership

Dunkirk: 6 big questions on a remarkable rescue mission

Spies_Main-51973e6
Membership

Money, love and revenge: the motivations of spies through history

Premium
podcast-logo_v4_39-50db1b0
Membership

Germany’s World War Two . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Premium
Test pilot Melitta Schiller (right), Berlin, June 1943. (Photo by DRK/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Membership

The women who flew for Hitler: an interview with Clare Mulley . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Iranian Jewish woman walks past the graves of Polish Jews who died in Iran during and after the Second World War
Membership

The Library The incredible tale of the WW2 Poles who fought back

Premium
Podcast-Website-large-Henry-Hemming-fdc50ad
Membership

The Library A legendary spymaster . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.