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How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

When we think of the U-boat campaign during the Second World War, images often arise of silent predators gliding beneath the waves, steely and lethal, striking fear into Allied convoys. The myth of th

“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”

The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind

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

On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1944, a young soldier from Newcastle married the love of his life with barely four hours to spare. My father, Corporal George Bell, a conscript with the Royal Electrical