When east met west

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

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

● HISTORY IS FULL OF “WHAT-IFS?”, perhaps nowhere ...

How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory

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

With casualties mounting and citizens starving, what effect would Stalin striking another deal with Hitler have had?