“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few …” On August 18th Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to deliver one of his greatest speeches—indeed, one can argue it was one of the greatest speeches delivered in the English...

August 13th — Eagle Day In 1940 Hitler’s Luftwaffe set out to establish air superiority over southern England and the English Channel in order to enable a cross-channel invasion of Britain, code-named as Operation Sea Lion. Hitler’s forces had just completed the swift...