The best World War Ii newsletters

A daily newsletter that chronicles events of the Second World War on their 85th anniversary, pairing short historical narratives with period images. Issues give context and analysis, such as comparing the 1941 German advance with Napoleon's 1812 campaign.

A serialised memoir reconstructing a British medical officer's wartime journeys across Ethiopia and Somaliland in the East African campaign of 1941, with vivid detail on logistics, hospitals and daily hardship. It also covers the Gideon Force and the restoration of Haile Selassie, giving readers an intimate view of a little-told corner of Second World War history.

A family podcast that reads and discusses the letters of Mattie, a Minnesota homemaker, during World War II, episode by episode in near real time. Listeners get household life on the home front, local history of Minneapolis places, and the family's personal dramas and rationing details.

Historic.ly is a polemical newsletter that challenges mainstream readings of history, arguing against the 'presentism' rule taught in schools and attacking Western narratives of World War II and French fascism. It also contains debates on socialist politics and free speech, with a strong point of view throughout.

A blog preserving the history of sailors who served aboard the USS Boston (CA-69) in World War II, with personal recollections, photos from families and notes on personnel records. Readers get a human-scale, archival look at the crew and the work of documenting them.

A companion newsletter for The Martyr Made Podcast, a history show focused on World War II and the German experience, with episode announcements and excerpts from its series. Recent issues also include a Q&A in which the host addresses questions that minimize the Holocaust and repeat denialist claims, which the issues present as 'taboo' truths.