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1944-45 BATTLE FOR EUROPE
These elite sharpshooters led the Allied advance in
HOW THE LUFTWAFFE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying
The USA’s standing army maintains traditions and remains prepared for the defence of the country in the 21st century
The German army is often depicted as an epic, unstoppable machine. There’s no doubt that, at the outbreak of the First World War, it was the most formidably organised military force on the planet – bu
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
John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry