Stalin's son Jakov Djugashvili, prisoner of war (centre). Jakov, an engineer by profession, a senior lieutenant and battery commander of he 14th...
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-9076835539195533187&q=Leni+riefenstahl Been listening to her life story on Radio 4 this week
Lucie Samuel was born in France on 29th June, 1912. She studied history at university and became concerned about the activities of Adolf Hitler...
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...
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...
Short i know, i hope more will be added on this guy at later times... :wink: Harry Secombe to General Montgomery in North Africa during WWII....
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...
General Dwight Eisenhower was chosen as Supreme Commander for Overlord because of his success with other landings in other theatres. He had...
Code-named Operation Escape 200, it was better known as The Great Escape. Allied captives, predominantly Royal Air Force officers, planned to...
As darkness was falling at 2256hrs on 5 June 1944, six Horsa gliders were pulled airborne from the runway at Tarrant Rushton airfield in England...
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 Spitfire-The World's Finest Fighter In all the annals of aerial warfare no finer fighter aeroplane ever existed than the Supermarine...
[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...
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...
A pilot is shot down over Germany by 'the boogy man'. Upon landing in a forest, he breaks his leg. The Germans pick him up and take him to a POW...
What If...? - Version 1.1 I saw something from BBC4 last night called "Mortgaged To The Yanks", all about the loan that Britain received from the...