What if... britain hadn’t cracked the enigma code in world war ii?

OPERATION OVERLORD HAD FAILED?

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

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

The story of four women who worked in wartime American intelligence

When Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs on 15 September 1940, it brought the war to the very front door of King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, the Queen consort. Just over two weeks later, the war