On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous es..

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. I..

Throughout the occupied territories Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the NazisBased on ..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..