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Years of debate, meticulous planning and technolog
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: NOVEMBER
On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h
JACK HIGGINS’ SEMINAL NOVEL WAS PUBLISHED FIVE DECADES AGO THIS MONTH, BUT WAS THE NAZI PLAN TO KIDNAP OR ASSASSINATE THE ‘BIG THREE’ IN TEHRAN GENUINE, OR AN ELABORATE SOVIET FICTION?
The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind
Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg
