After getting shot down in the skies over France in the winter of 1939 airman Robert Bozdech stumble..

In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

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In 1940 Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one the nations of Europe had fallen and ..

In 1914 the world changed forever when World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to f..

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

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Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

During the third week of February 1944 the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever roun..

'I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this ..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

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

How would it feel if all your sons and daughters were caught up in war? That was the heart-wrenching..