ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

The German war on Allied convoys

Our historians discuss the movies that have informed and inspired them

A round 3.30pm on 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker. Minutes later, his still warm body was carried outside by loyal staffers and burned in the Reich Chancellery gardens. H

AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

This baker’s son achieved what every other hotblooded Stuttgart youngster could only dream of doing during West Germany’s post-war Economic Miracle: to race for Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. Herrmann was