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Following the horrors of Black Week, it was the turn of the Boers to
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
BRANXTON, ENGLAND 9 SEPTEMBER 1513
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
CHEMIN DES DAMES, FRANCE 16 APRIL – 9 MAY 1917
To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War will be taking a look at some of the key events taking place during each month of the conflict
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
