"We are living in hell." This was the incessant refrain of the letters which have been smuggled out of German occupied Poland. The photographs...
Curtis Tomahawk was one of the many types of aircraft sent to Britain from the United States. Fighter machines of this kind were brought over by...
Lord Beaverbrook appointed by Churchill Minister for Aircraft Production on May 10th and a few weeks later given a seat in the War Cabinet as...
Here, appropriate to the experiences of the citizens of Britain stoically enduring daily air attacks, was a review of the lessons officially drawn...
Besides warships many merchant ships were built at top speed in Britain's yards to replace the losses caused by German Submarines. Here is a...
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...
Having succeeded at the Ministry of Transport, in 1937 he was controversially appointed by Neville Chamberlain as Secretary of State for War...
At the beginning of the war the King sent the following message to the British Merchant Navy and British Fishing Fleets: “In these anxious...
When the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed, Daladier responded to the public outcry by outlawing the French Communist Party, which had refused to...
Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of Great Britain in September 1939 as Europe descended into World War Two after the failure of appeasement...
A major factor in the success of the Allies from the second half of 1941 onwards was the cracking of the Enigma machine. Enigma was the name of a...
In 1930 there were about 20,000 people from Germany living in Britain. This number increased after Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933. It is...
[IMG] The two vital prototypes from which came the fighters that won the Battle of Britain. Above, the K 5054, the prototype Spitfire which was...
Britain's main fighter force in I937 and I938 relied on fixed undercarriage biplanes. A formation of Gloster Gauntlets of No. 32 Squadron airborne...
A single British soldier of the Royal Tank Regiment mans a Vickers Carden-Loyd (otherwise known as VCL) Tankette during trials which were carried...
Pre-war German propaganda stressed the massive output of German aircraft factories which went far to frighten air force chiefs in other European...
[IMG] Above: Germany's first Sturzkampfflugzeug dive bomber. The Henschel Hs 123 which first flew early in 1935. The type saw service in Spain,...
On June 28 1914,Archduke Franz Ferdinand,heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb citizen.History tells that this is...
[img] Leslie Howard Stainer was born in Forest Hill on 3rd April, 1893. He was the eldest son of Frank Stainer (a Hungarian-born immigrant who...