by David West | Jun 13, 2026 | News
The Battle of Villers-Bocage was fought on the 13th of June 1944 and my father fought in it. It was one of the most dramatic armoured engagements of the early Battle of Normandy following the Allied landings in Operation Overlord. Taking place in and around the small...
by David West | Jun 12, 2026 | News
On the 12th of June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday. Anne Frank (1929–1945) is one of the most widely known victims of the Holocaust. Through the diary she kept while hiding from Nazi persecution during the World War II, she left behind...
by David West | Jun 11, 2026 | News
The siege of Malta began on the 11th of June, 1940. I learnt to SCUBA dive in Malta in 1988. I haven’t been back to Malta since, but I don’t know why, I really enjoyed it. The Siege of Malta during World War II was one of the longest and most intense sieges of the...
by David West | Jun 10, 2026 | News
The Battle of Záblatí was fought on the 10th of June 1619, during the Bohemian period of the Thirty Years’ War. I have researched and written a lot about the Eighty Years’ War because that was my ancestor Sir Anthony Standen’s war, but I think this is my first post on...
by David West | Jun 9, 2026 | News
I hardly ever use cash these days. Partly that’s because I get rewards on my credit card, and partly it’s because I carry so many membership cards, loyalty cards, cards for paying for EV charging, that there isn’t room in a traditional wallet to fit them. I now have a...
