The defence of folkestone

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

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

OPERATION OVERLORD HAD FAILED?

Since 1940 Japan had been devoid of civilian politicians as the parties had been dissolved by the militaristic Imperial Rule Assistance Association, led by Lt General Hideki Tojo. Over the intervening

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

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