Introduction The following information has been extracted from the various PRO files concerning the trial and execution of John Amery for High...
Every day, Wehrmacht commanders in the field sent reports back to base. Their dispatches included details as mundane as the weather - and as...
The two armies that faced each other across the beaches in the early hours of 6 June 1944 were vastly different in almost every way. One was very...
Code-named Operation Escape 200, it was better known as The Great Escape. Allied captives, predominantly Royal Air Force officers, planned to...
The assault by the 8th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, on Sword Beach was somewhat similar to the US 4th Infantry Division at Utah, landing along...
THE QUIET HEROINE OF LA RESISTANCE AGENT TORTURED BY GESTAPO A WARTIME resistance heroine who survived torture by the Gestapo was laid to rest...
The great London railway termini are prime military objectives, the nerve centres of the nation's transport-and in spite of air raid alarm, and...
[IMG] "Young man, you did a fine thing to give up your film career to fight for your country. Mark you, had you not done so − it would have been...
On June 6th 1944 an international coalition attacked Nazi occupied France along the Normandy coast. Supported by paratroops, soldiers landed on...
The Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942 demolished the Japanese military's perception that their homeland was immune from air attack. They...
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...
The Allies' special agencies lavished fantastic ingenuity on equipment for clandestine work behind enemy lines. Spy Drop: A British Westland...
Major General Sir Percy Hobart Percy Hobart joined the Royal Engineers in 1904 and then in 1906 transferred to the engineers in the Indian Army....
Military operations are thick with codenames, acronyms and nicknames that need explaining to the layman. Unfortunately, the written history of...
By the morning of the 3rd September 1939 war was inevitable. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcast to the nation at 11.15 a.m. that morning...
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 road to the invasion of Nazi-controlled France began more than two years prior to its actual execution. In its early stages, the invasion plan...
Pegasus was the name given to a bridge over the Caen canal, near the town of Ouistreham. The bridge, also known as the Benouville Bridge after the...