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Tag Archives: World War II

Fighting Proud – An Exclusive Extract
History

Fighting Proud – An Exclusive Extract

Posted on July 6, 2017 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

To mark London Pride Month 2017, read on for an exclusive extract from ‘Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars’ by Stephen Bourne. Continue reading →

Extract: Leningrad 1943
Alexander Werth / History

Extract: Leningrad 1943

Posted on November 3, 2014 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Alexander Werth’s unique eyewitness account of the Battle of Leningrad releases this week. Continue reading →

The Secret World in the Sunday Times
History / News / Reviews

The Secret World in the Sunday Times

Posted on September 25, 2014 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

‘Waspish, quick-witted, and eloquent’, our new Hugh Trevor-Roper book receives advanced praise. Continue reading →

Painting of the Week: 102
David Clampin / Painting of the Week

Painting of the Week: 102

Posted on August 22, 2014 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Rowland Hilder, Hartley’s Jam advertisement, first appeared in Picture Post on 9 December 1939. Continue reading →

A History of the Royal Navy
History / News

A History of the Royal Navy

Posted on April 10, 2014 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

We are delighted to announce that the first books in our A History of the Royal Navy series are now available. Continue reading →

Good Germans, Bad Nazis
History / Russell Wallis

Good Germans, Bad Nazis

Posted on April 9, 2014 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Russell Wallis seeks to show how and why the Holocaust was initially met with such a muted response in Britain. Continue reading →

The Battleground for Memory in Dresden
History / Tony Joel

The Battleground for Memory in Dresden

Posted on March 18, 2014 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

The Allied forces bombing of Dresden is identified as one of the most controversial acts of World War II, but the politics about how to remember the destruction in Germany has become increasingly contested terrain. Continue reading →

The Battle for Music
History / John Morris

The Battle for Music

Posted on November 11, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

From Elgar to Vaughan Williams, what was the purpose of government involvement in promoting music during World War II? Continue reading →

The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg
Bengt Jangfeldt / History

The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg

Posted on October 29, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

The story of Raoul Wallenberg – who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest’s Jews from the Holocaust – is one of the most remarkable of World War II. Yet the complete account of his life and fate can only be told now. Continue reading →

Civilising the Germans and the Allied Occupation
Francis Graham-Dixon / History

Civilising the Germans and the Allied Occupation

Posted on July 15, 2013 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

In Germany, 1945, how could Britain reconcile wartime bombing with comprehensive and coherent plans for reconstruction? Francis Graham-Dixon considers the paradoxical legacy of Allied occupation in Germany. Continue reading →

John Piper: The Forties
Galleries

John Piper: The Forties

Posted on July 18, 2012 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Documenting war torn Britain, John Piper is one of Britain’s most loved artists. His painting Interior of Coventry Cathedral, has even been described as Britain’s Guernica. Continue reading →

Painting of the Week: 32
Painting of the Week / Thomas Abbs

Painting of the Week: 32

Posted on July 7, 2012 by theibtaurisblog • 2 Comments

Paul Delvaux, Sleeping Venus, 1944, oil on canvas, 173 x 199 cm, Tate Modern (London). Continue reading →

A Dangerous Occupation
History / Janina Struk

A Dangerous Occupation

Posted on April 23, 2012 by theibtaurisblog • 2 Comments

 In occupied Poland during WWII Poles and Jews were not allowed to own cameras, buy film or take photographs. It is perhaps inevitable then that photography quickly became an underground activity. Continue reading →

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