The German Soldier's Ten Commandments [IMG] [ Printed in Every German Soldier's Paybook ] 1: While fighting for victory the German...
Three days after becoming Prime Minister, Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) told the Commons: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears...
With the outbreak of civil war in Spain in July 1936, the rest of Europe began to have a sickening foretaste of the kind of "total war" that it...
Some Jews who managed to escape from ghettos and camps formed their own fighting units. These fighters, or partisans, were concentrated in densely...
People have the idea that the winter of 1941/42 was in favour of the Russian side, that all the troubles of the Wehrmacht resulted from this cold...
The Battle of Stalingrad is thought to have claimed more lives than any other single conflict of the Second World War. In 1942, April 5, Hitler...
Galina Dzhunkovskaya was born in the village of Yurkovka in the Kiev region of Ukraine; her father was a peasant firmer. In 1935, she went to...
Too daft to be true, but hey, if someone can fill me in great. i heard that the Soviets were training dogs to run under tanks so as to attach...
Mariya Dolina could be considered the “Grandmother of Soviet bomber aviation.” She was horn on December 18, 1922, in the Omsk region of Siberia....
I have heard that the Enigma machine was actually susbequently recycled and used by the CIA....is this true?
While there were many incidents which saw heavy loss of life, a few are worth mentioning as all indication of the impact upon local people and...
For some reason the two main enemies of World War 2 never seemed to want to help each other out. There wa snot a single battle that Germany and...
M4, 3rd Platoon, "B" Company, 8th Tank Battalion, US 4th Armored Division, Avranches. [IMG] Illustration by Steven j. Zaloga
Saw this on UKTV History last night. Very good film. Me & the boy enjoyed it a lot. True story of a Russian Sniper in Stalingrad & the German sent...
A captured jagdtiger on a Gotha 80 tonne trailer being prepared to be taken to England for inspection. Although the firepower of jagdtiger was...
I do not know if this belongs here but I think it could qualify under an atrocity. Anyways the Russians in WWII used to train dogs to be a...
The Eastern Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed the conflict in central and eastern Europe from June 22, 1941 to May 8,...
For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted three army groups, totalling approximately 3.3 million men, along with 1 million...
By the Spring of 1944, the Allied preparations for the invasion of France and the initial stages for the liberation of western Europe (Operation...
Control of Southern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa was important because the British Empire depended on shipping through the Suez...