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Behind Enemy Lines by Moonlight
10th February 1941: Operation Colossus - the first Allied paratroop operation is a sabotage mission deep in enemy territory
23 hrs ago
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'Give us the tools and we will finish the job'
9th February 1941: Churchill makes an international broadcast telling the world that with American support Britain can beat Hitler
Feb 9
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'Electric Whiskers' was 'outnumbered'
8th February 1941: Italian general Annibale Bergonzoli defends the humiliating defeat of the 10th Army by much smaller British forces
Feb 8
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Beda Fomm: Italian collapse in the desert
7th February 1941: From Cril Joly's classic account 'Take These Men: Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats', a young officer fighting through North Africa
Feb 7
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Benghazi captured
6th February 1941: Confusion as the Italians begin to surrender when the British finally reach the regional centre, Benghazi
Feb 6
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Invasion of Britain still possible
5th February 1941: German troops concentrations are carefully monitored, along with rumours from occupied Europe
Feb 5
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Goebbels on Churchill
4th February 1941: the German Propganda Minister attacks Churchill as a tyrant and war monger
Feb 4
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Torpedoed in the Atlantic
3rd February 1941: A Royal Navy gunner describes being torpedoed in the middle of the night
Feb 3
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A first Parachute jump
2nd February 1941: The first experiments in devising a method of dropping parachute troops made great demands on the individuals involved
Feb 2
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Fighter Pilots in 1940
A selection of first-hand accounts from the men who fought the 'Battle of Britain'
Jan 4
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Women at War in 1940
In a People's War, women are very much on the front line, whether they volunteered for it or not
Jan 3
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Americans in 1940
U.S. citizens were 'neutral' in 1940 and unusually well placed to see the impact of the Nazis - some individuals wanted to take action directly
Jan 2
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Hitler in 1940
Hitler's most successful year confounds the world ... but his true ambition is yet to be revealed ... key posts from the past year
Jan 1
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'Battle of Britain - The Gathering Storm'
Another highlight from the new history of the battle, with links to some of the other volumes featured this year ...
Dec 21, 2025
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