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Professor Evan Mawdsley tells Nige Tas
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
With casualties mounting and citizens starving, what effect would Stalin striking another deal with Hitler have had?
In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn
● HISTORY IS FULL OF “WHAT-IFS?”, perhaps nowhere ...
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
This fantastic plan, which led the then Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS), Air Vice-Marshal Arthur T Harris, to remark ‘the story, that appears too fantastic for words, might have a fortunate outco