The first ‘second front’

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

On 1 September 1939, Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers found himself in Berlin to take part in a European conference about telephone systems. Germany invaded Poland the same day. Flowers and a fellow

In the days and hours before October 7, intelligence that should have made its way up the IDF chain of command didn’t reach people who could have connected the dots

Sometimes, the hardest thing about starting a new miniatures game is deciding what faction you want to play as. After all, you don’t want to glue together and paint all those beautiful minis, just to

The failed high-altitude fighter that proved crucial to the liberation of Europe as a deadly ground-attack aircraft