Second World War

In 1941 air gunner Sergeant Jack Newtons Wellington is hit by flak on his first bombing raid over Germany. Miraculously, the skipper makes an emerg...

When Britain declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939, it did not come as a surprise. Hitlers remilitarisation and repudiation of the Treaty of Versail...

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The safe exchange of wounded or gravely ill prisoners of war, protected personnel medical staff and clergy and diplomats, civilians and alien int...

The armies of the Third Reich were a formidable foe for the Allied forces - largely thanks to the effectiveness of their equipment and weaponry. In...

During the final days of the Second World War, for 900 Allied officers, held by the Germans in Oflag IX A/H and Oflag IX A/Z, freedom was still a w...

Fleet Air Arm Handbook is the most comprehensive review available of the Royal Navys air power during the war years. Starting with a brief history,...

At the outbreak of the Second World War the government short-sightedly allowed thousands of miners to enlist in the armed services. By 1943 the war...

Hastings was often bombed during the Second World War. John Bristow, describing a raid on 23 May 1943 says 'There was a god-almighty explosion and ...

An incredible and important story, finally being told - Mishal Husain On 28 May 1940, Major Akbar Khan marched at the head of 299 soldiers along a ...

When war was declared in September 1939, young people around the world were expected to put on a uniform and fight in a conflict not of their makin...

They called it the slaughter of the innocents. The barely trained and poorly equipped men of the Labour Divisions were never meant to fight, but wh...

Major Vic Ebbage was a Colonel with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, serving in Hong Kong in 1941, when his garrison was attacked by the Japanese Arm...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...

Men captured in war, deprived of their purpose as well as their liberty, naturally think of escape. During the Second World War, when vast numbers ...

Short Stirling: Queen of the Skies is dedicated to the RAF's first four-engine heavy bomber and is the culmination of an incredible 30 years' compr...

By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospit...

The Second World War (193945) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any rags of glory...

Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British. Th...

Rumours of buried Spitfires from the Second World War have spread around the world for seventy-five years. In April 2012, the press reported that t...

Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories and one of the worst Allied defeats of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foun...

Robert 'Bob' Maloubier, otherwise known as the French James Bond and as Churchills Secret Agent, led a life straight out of a spy thriller. At the ...

During the Second World War, the Merchant Navy suffered a higher percentage loss than any of the British armed forces, but despite this extraordina...