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By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path

This robust, pugnacious aircraft dominated the skies and became the premier carrier-based fighter of the Pacific War

When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Army numbered just over one million men, comprising both the regular forces and the part-time Territorial Army. The National Service (Armed

Dr Paul Brown reveals Britain’s role in patrolling the seas during the height of Cold War tensions with the USSR

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i