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German troops suffer in the cold
Churchill mocks the Vichy French
Russian anger grows at Nazi crimes
Dawn patrol from HMS Indomitable
Operation Archery - the raid on Vaagso
The death toll mounts in Leningrad
Barbarossa - the assault on Russia
Christmas Day in a war torn world
Christmas messages from the Nazis
US Marines' last fight on Wake Island
Churchill arrives at the White House
The British fall back in Malaya
A Disastrous day for the Royal Navy
Ditching in the Channel in December
First and last cruise of U-131
Bombing the invasion beaches on the Philippines
'Destruction of the Jews' decided
Hitler declares war on the USA
Far East disaster for the Royal Navy
More Japanese surprise attacks
The President makes a last attempt to avert war
The end of the march on Moscow
Stug Brigade 191 - The Buffalo Brigade
The British reinforce Singapore
British tanks still no match for Panzers
Japanese order "Climb Mount Niitaka"
The end of the Jews in Lithuania
Hitler rants and raves over progress in Russia
The death of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Conditions get even colder on the Eastern Front
Panzer attack causes confusion in North Africa
250 men adrift in rafts in mid Atlantic
The end of "Schiff 16" - the 'Atlantis'
High expectations for 'Crusader'
HMAS Sydney sunk with all hands
The British attack in North Africa
Commandos attempt to capture Rommel
The Wehrmacht resumes its march
Deaths rise in besieged Leningrad
A break in the advance on Moscow
Polish Independence Day in Auschwitz
HMS Proteus sinks German troopship
Force K ambushes an Italian convoy
Hitler boasts about Russian losses
The Red Army parades in Moscow
Top Secret: Combined Fleet Operation Order No 1
A committed soldier fights on for Hitler
Life improves for British POWs
The 'Stalin Organ' arrives in numbers
USS Reuben James lost to torpedoes
Secret Casualties of World War II
The Wehrmacht encounters the T-34
Ordinary Germans hear of atrocities in the East
Roosevelt's “Navy Day Address”
A narrow escape over Bremerhaven
A disastrous Moonlight run to Tobruk
Air Battle for Moscow 1941-1942
French Resistance provokes Reprisals
The Kragujevac massacre in Serbia
The Germans reach Borodino Field
German Jews now face deportation
First American Casualties of the War
Mass Murder in the Baltic States
Popular support for USSR in Britain
'Nuisance' bombing in 'Oyster Town'
'Severity Order' given to German troops
Army Group South continues the blitzkrieg
Army Group Center slows in the mud
SS Thistlegorm bombed in the Red Sea
POWs are marched through Poland
U-boat gun battle with Trawler
Hitler - 'final battle' on the Eastern front
Hitler launches 'Operation Typhoon'
Britain expects return of the Blitz
An Airman's First and last Operational Flight
The death trap of occupied Kiev
Bomb and torpedo attack on convoy
'Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front'
Rommel stranded in No Mans land
Soviet wounded to be left untreated
'Medicine and Duty' in Egypt base camp
Massive encirclement around Kiev
Suicidal Soviet assault on Waffen SS
Russian POWs arrive in Germany
The Judenstern arrives in Germany
'Escort Carriers' to protect Convoys
Surviving the 'Holocaust by Bullets'
First U-Boat sunk by Canadian Navy
The Germans approach Leningrad
RAF attack German supply lines
Red Army attack on German lines
Churchill to Stalin - No Second Front
USS Greer attacks U-boat in Atlantic
An uncomfortable German home front
Fighting off a dive bomber attack
Reprisals against Russian POWs
Training in the Malayan jungle
Hurricane v Ju 88 over the Irish Sea
Operation Gauntlet - the Spitzbergen Raid
Churchill speaks on the power of the 'English speaking nations'
Hitler in dispute with his Army High Command over next moves in Barbarossa
Luftwaffe diverted to rescue Army Group North
'Pioneers of Irregular Warfare'
Bila Tserkva II: murder of the children is botched
The Jews are shot - what now for their children?
Patrolling outside the Tobruk wire
Death and disease stalks the ghetto
US supply ship torpedoed in Atlantic
Last Execution in the Tower of London
Food rationing concentrates the mind in Britain
Russia's neutrality pact with Japan
HMS Picotee lost without trace
The Atlantic Charter - a declaration of goals
Churchill and Roosevelt at 'Church'
A German soldier just wants to survive
A Russian View of the Front Line
Death approaches on the Eastern front
A stay in 'the infamous, bombed Tobruk Hospital'
A German view of the Bolsheviks
First "kill" by rocket launched fighter
Smuggling is key to Jewish survival
'Images of War - Operation Barbarossa'
Tobruk - bombed by night and day
Army Group Centre grinds to a halt
Dawn breaks over the battlefield
Hitler in two minds over Barbarossa objectives
The last pictures of the Jews of Mogilev
Americans executed by the British II
A busy week for RAF Coastal Command
Torpedo attack on Malta convoy
'USA will be in the war within 6 weeks'
First German Air Raid on Moscow
'V for Victory' spreads across Europe
Trapped in the sunken HMS Umpire
Heavy casualties in raid on Hull
The Americans executed by the British I
Jock Lewes leads the Twin Pimples raid
A German 'Garden of Eden' in the East
'You do your worst – and we will do our best.'
The march into Russia continues
A job of work for the Einsatzgruppen
Bayonet attack on a machine gun post
United States occupies Iceland
Otto Carius, later a 'tank ace', escapes death
Out on the wing to fight a fire
Panzers lose against Soviet tanks
Chaplain chooses to die with his men
Hughie Edwards leads attack on Bremen
Radio Operator on the Eastern Front
The horrors of the Russian front
The reality of the 'Ostfront' slowly emerges
The Wehrmacht are welcomed in Busk
Royal Navy interrogate 'fervent Nazis'
Royal Navy interrogate fervent Nazis
RAF 'Circus 26' - 'an offensive sweep'
The Third Reich in 100 Objects
The German Army arrives in town
The Blitz on Britain continues
Wehrmacht surprised by monster tank
Barbarossa - Nazi Germany v Communist Russia
Guderian makes some final checks
'Exercises' on the Russian border
'Battleaxe'- Disheartening British counter-attack
Lieutenant Roden Cutler wins VC
Rommel counter-attacks in the desert
Operation Battleaxe - tank versus tank
The deadly hazards of Paratroop training
Wartime lives revealed in letters home
Bismarck: fateful decisions in the balance