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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

When Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs on 15 September 1940, it brought the war to the very front door of King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, the Queen consort. Just over two weeks later, the war

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

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

Operation Spider’s Web, in which dozens of Russian bombers were destroyed with drones, shows Ukraine’s aptitude for blue-sky thinking. It marks an inflection point in warfare

The Tiger II was the largest tank used by Nazi Germany in WWII, but the behemoth was problem-prone and never had the impact on the battlefield its creators had sought