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WWII THIS MONTH…
To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, Hi
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: NOVEMBER
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
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
“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
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
