Elisabeth Shipton, a history researcher, tells me that many young British women did actually make it to the front line. In her new book, she calls these women the ‘f emale Tommies ’ because they ...

Winston Churchill was clear. “My dear friends,” he said on May 8th 1945, standing on a balcony in Whitehall to address the cheering crowds below. “This is your hour.” Victory, he said, did not belong ...