On a warm late August day in 1940, as war raged across Europe, a nine-year-old boy was scavenging the coastline near his Ayrshire home in search of treasure.
During World War II, German U-boats dealt significant damage to Allied shipping. The submarines used stealth and strategic tactics, augmented by intelligence gathered on merchant vessels, to inflict maximum destruction. These U-boats strategically targeted ships, causing disruptions across the Atlantic Ocean’s shipping lanes. While the Allies labored to refine their strategies to counter this menace, […]
Fascinating material casts light on some of the less familiar stories of those who settled in Britain during and after the second world war, from ‘Casanova’ Poles to Waffen SS