In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn

● HISTORY IS FULL OF “WHAT-IFS?”, perhaps nowhere ...

In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc

During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre’s rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders

AN EXAMPLE OF DEEP LAYERED, CO-ORDINATED DEFENCE IN PLACE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1940

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...