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James Holland is an internationally acclaimed, best-selling and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster, co-host of podcast WW2: We Have Ways of Making You Talka & YouTube channel WW2: Walking the Ground.

Newsletter · By James Holland · English · Official site

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Sep 16, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Are We the Bad Guys? (opens the original)

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    In a brilliant sketch by David Mitchell and Robert Webb, the two comedians, dressed in SS uniforms, question why they’ve got skulls as part of their insignia. ‘Hans,’ asks Mitchell’s character, ‘are we the bad guys?’ Perhaps those soon to be wearing the new US Space Force uniforms will be asking themselves the same question. In an AI-generated picture, revealed to the world last week, a square-jawed figure stands upright and erect, legs slightly apart, hands behind his back, chin jutting. He’s t

  2. Issue · Sep 7, 2026

    Pressure: The Truth About the D-Day Weather (opens the original)

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    It’s 4.15am, Monday, 5th June, 1944, and having had his latest meeting with the respective British and American weather teams, Group Captain James Stagg is back to face the Supreme Commander and the Commanders-in-Chief. Once again they are in the library of Southwick House, just a few miles north of Portsmouth on the south coast of England. It’s a room full of largely forlorn and empty bookshelves, but now the requisitioned mansion’s Mess Room. General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding all the

  3. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Resilience (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Jul 14, 2026

    One Man's War: Okinawa '45 (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Jul 11, 2026

    Keeping Us Safe (opens the original)

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