British Zone News Today

She searched Magdeburg for her relatives but found them ‘all dead; they had asphyxiated in the firestorm and were swollen up like balloons…’

Gertrude Wright, who has died 18 days short of her 100th birthday, lived an adventurous life. She was born in the German city of Magdeburg, and survived the massive Allied bombing of early 1945; witnessed American forces searching for the inventor of the V2 rocket; fled from the advancing Russians; and ended up as a translator in Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery’s headquarters in Lüneburg shortly after the German surrender, where she met her future British husband.

Colin Shindler is fascinated by a study into a failure of justice

The patriarchy is riding high for the 2024 Oscars — but not Charles Melton or the boys of Saltburn.

It snowed at Bergen-Belsen on Dec. 8, two months after Hamas carnage on the Israel-Gaza border changed the world.

Historian Daniel Cowling looks at the successes and the failures that the four-year British occupation brought, delving deep into Foreign Office documents, private diaries, newspaper reports and interviews.

Bernard Montgomery became a master of the art of military leadership and command. It’s about time history recognized it.

Robert Dell, 97, of Sandwich, IL, passed away on Friday, September 15, 2023 at The Pavilion on Main in Sandwich, IL. He was born June 25, 1926, in Clarkston, WA

Captains & Colonels chronicles the story of the area’s military past

Everyone has likely heard the old adage “Age is only a number”, while there are many who may scoff at this motivational saying, there are also many who view it as a challenge.