SINCE THE END OF WWII, THE ROLE OF RAF BOMBER COMMAND HAS REMAINED HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL. MARCUS GIBSON ARGUES THAT INSTEAD OF A MURKY LEGACY, ITS FLIGHT CREWS DESERVE THANKS FOR STOPPING NAZI GERMANY

Five minutes before the Wehrmacht crossed the eastern borders of the neutral Benelux states on the morning of 10 May 1940 to signal the start of the Blitzkrieg in the West, German Fallschirmjäger (par

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Gunfire erupted just after first light. Police officers had hurled pebbles at the shuttered windows of 100 Sidney Street in London’s East End, aiming to rouse the men they knew were inside, and to ind

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