It was horrific. The siege of Leningrad (the modern-day St. Petersburg) lasted almost two and one-half years and cost the lives of an estimated...
If there had not been a war in the east against Russia, what is your views on what would have happened in the west when the invasion occured? I...
She was the lover of lan Fleming and Churchill's favourite spy .. the beautiful countess who ran rings round the Gestapo SHE was the very first...
Stalin’s Winter Offensive Never having visited the Front himself, Stalin decides on a wholesale offensive from Finland to the Black Sea. By...
"When Barbarossa is launched, declared Hitler, the whole world will hold its breath!", and indeed the forces massed along the Soviet frontier from...
In 1939 Russia extended its border at the expense of several neighbouring countries but Finland refuses to be coerced. Poland was not the only...
What were the effects of world war II upon the major world powers; upon Germany, Japan, England, France, the soviet union, and the united states?...
One of the most enduring images of Britain at war is that of bombed cities and towns, the destruction and devastation caused by aerial...
Finland beat off a Soviet Invasion, but the Norwegians facing a better equipped. more formidable foe in the Germans could not hold out....
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The American public largely ignored the war crimes trials in Tokyo and throughout Asia in 1946-1948. Unlike the charismatic Nazi leadership, who...
At dawn on September 1, 1939, the German army launched a ferocious assault across the Polish border. The Luftwaffe sent its bombers and fighters...
Hitler's aggressive acquisition of territory began in 1936 when he ordered his army to reoccupy the Rhineland district of Germany. Bordering...
Between December 1937 and March 1938 one of the worst massacres in modern times took place. Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Nanking...
Russian POW Murders The first 3,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp during September 1941. After months of...
As the dust settled over Europe in the summer of 1945 and war-ravaged Europeans began the slow process of recovery, the leadership of the...
There is a reason it was called a world war. Besides the major powers involved, numerous lesser countries were caught up in the global struggle...
"The Best Tank in the World" [IMG] Since Ukraine was the center of heavy industry in the USSR in the 1930s it produced much of the...