The mighty eighth over europe

15 SEPTEMBER 1940

The Luftwaffe’s feared ‘destroyer’ long-range fighter met with very mixed success

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

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history

Musicians, aristocrats, war heroes and even Members of Parliament conspired to turn Britain over to the Nazis. But for the bravery of British intelligence agents, they may have succeeded