Britain at War August 2025

WHY WAS JAPAN’S SURRENDER A SHOCK?
• VE Day to VJ Day: Exhaustion at home, hope on the horizon
• A little help from our friends: The Empire’s greatest moment

SLEDGEHAMMER HARRIERS
RAF GR.7s smash Sarajevo’s attackers in combat debut

THE WORDSWORTH MYSTERY
Al Murray’s father, an unknown WWI soldier and an Ingersoll pocket watch

DESIGNING THE ‘DEVIL’S DEVICE’
The Victorian wonder weapon that changed naval warfare forever

IN THE WAKE OF WATERLOO
Taking Napoleon’s last fortress