Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941

Ian Kershaw

In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. ...

Shrapnel

Robert Swindells

Its the height of World War Two. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting. Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family...Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War One, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War Two...