Anybody read "All the Kings Men" ? Fascinating insite in to the role of the "Auxilliary Units" if the Germans had invaded the UK in 1940. The...
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] This is one of things I found in among my fathers things when he died. Dad was a Staff Sergeant in the...
War44.com has been given permission from Sapper Brian Guy to use in parts facts taken from the book “Cameos of War” that he wrote regarding his...
IT was the longest and hardest won campaign of the Second World War. Now, more than 60 years after the end of bloody Battle of the Atlantic, the...
Interesting article by the historian Norman Davies in an old Sunday Times aticle i found while surfing... :thumb: How we didn't win the war ....
Filled with surprises as it has been, the war has provided no stranger, indeed amazing, occurrence than the arrival in Scotland of Rudolf Hess,...
Douglas Bader was a legend who won huge admiration - even among Germans. An outstanding sportsman, Bader joined the RAF in 1931 to be acknowledged...
In August 1939, as World War II was imminent, plans were made to round up the hundreds of Germans in Dar-es-Salaam. The fifteen or so British...
Charlotte Gray's daughter launches operation to save SAS clubThe daughter of wartime secret agent 'Charlotte Gray' is fighting a battle of her own...
Introduction The following information has been extracted from the various PRO files concerning the trial and execution of John Amery for High...
Introduction The case of William Joyce must be one of the most famous treason trials in British legal history. Due to the legal issues...
Every day, Wehrmacht commanders in the field sent reports back to base. Their dispatches included details as mundane as the weather - and as...
The British Army The British formations that led the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 were well trained, well equipped, well supported and...
At the time of the landings, there were 60 German divisions in the West waiting for the Allies to strike. It sounds like an impressively large...
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...
Since the War has come to the homeland, active service for women's organizations attached to the fighting forces has taken on an even more...
Soon after the intensified murder raids on London began the increased fury of the A.A. gun barrage gave much satisfaction to the millions...
This report about Polish airmen, fighting in the R.A.F was taken on 18th October 1940 by Mr. Henry Baerlein, on behalf of “The War Illustrated”...