A dismal existence

Ring of Fire focuses on the period between the mobilisations of July 1914 and the battle of the Marne in the first half of September that year, telling the story of the frantic opening period of the w

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

When the soldiers of 8. Württembergisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 126 (IR. 126) ‘Großherzog Friedrich von Baden’ left southern Alsace on the night of 14 August 1914, they had already experienced days

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

AN EXAMPLE OF DEEP LAYERED, CO-ORDINATED DEFENCE IN PLACE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1940

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