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It’s now 80 years since 160,000 troops arrived on Normandy’s beaches for
OPERATION OVERLORD HAD FAILED?
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
In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn
Flight’s glamorous beginnings
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
