Although they are numerous, voluminous and often dexterous, all our histories of World War II have one thing in common: their point of view is resolutely western, and in that sense, they are univocal. British historians (Keegan, Kershaw, Beevor) tend to be at the top of the pack, but they observe World War II from the perspective of London. German and French historians have fallen into lockstep behind them.

Nearly eighty years after the end of the fighting, it is time to look at the events that shaped today’s world from a different point of view. Australia, Morocco, Switzerland, French-speaking Canada and elsewhere… were so many often reluctant parties to the conflict whose role and involvement has been ignored.

What did the Irish Republic’s neutrality mean in relationship to the United Kingdom? Was the Vatican really lax toward Nazi Germany? What actually happened in Mers el-Kébir? Why has Russia remained obsessed with the Great Patriotic War?

A unique analysis of a subject that you would have assumed had been covered from all angles by now.