Published in The Daily Express May 1940 The first new dance of the war, the 'Blackout Stroll' was designed specially for 'You ladies called...
"The rise and fall of the empire depends upon this battle," signalled Yamamoto to his attack fleet before the strike at Pearl Harbor. But even at...
Friedrich von Paulus was born in Breitenau, Melsungen District, on 23 September 1890. His family was not aristocratic and the title 'von' was only...
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To enable the forces already on the Normandy coast on D-Day to be reinforced and kept supplied with utmost speed it was necessary that two...
"Except possibly for a few last shots, the Battle of London is over," declared Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. Chairman of the War Cabinet Committee on...
Thursday 16th August 1945 My (22nd.)birthday was celebrated in the Squadron canteen. Aided by Vic, Hewie,Wyatt, 29 tins of beer and 6 bottles of...
This review of the book "The Home Guard of Britain" was first written in 1943. Who first thought of a Home Guard for Britain? There are many...
Hitler’s portrait is displayed in a Mercedes automobile showroom in Munich in 1935. From the early days of the Nazi movement, Hitler travelled in...
Platoon sergeant James W. Collins was one of five thousand Americans in Stalag III-B, a prisoner-of-war camp near Frankfurt, in western Germany....
When I read the thread below about the Ladies of the French Resistance, it instantly remind me a documentary I saw a few weeks ago on Arte (Arte...
Convoy PQ17 had become the bait in a trial of strength between the Allied and German Navies. A serious error of judgement resulted in a huge...
The fighting quality of the men at Longues-sur-Mer was variable. It would seem that the crews of the coastal batteries to some extent suffered the...
The Longues-sur-Mer battery was the responsibility of the naval commander for the western sector of Normandy Rear-Admiral Walther Hennecke, who...
"Do you know how we behaved to the civilians? We behaved like devils out of Hell. We left those poor villagers to starve to death, thousands and...
Klara Hitler found out that she was pregnant with her 4th, and you knew what it was going to grow up to be. Would you tell her to consider an...
Here, appropriate to the experiences of the citizens of Britain stoically enduring daily air attacks, was a review of the lessons officially drawn...
A great "naval occasion" was the dramatic engagement between the "Admiral Graf Spee" and the British cruisers on December 13th, in which the...
New Nazi Frightfulness off Britain's Coasts A number of neutral ships sunk by German mines close into the English shore marked the opening of...
Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, KCMG (10 June 1882 – 30 December 1942) was the Ambassador of Great Britain to Germany from 1937 to 1939. He believed...