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The Battle of the Barents Sea

'Nuisance bombing' hits Exeter

Shipping constrains Allied Strategy

Gloom and despair in Hitler's bunker

The life of an ATS 'Ack Ack' Girl

Listening to the battle from a tank

Voices of Russian Snipers

Another Christmas for a war weary World

A grim 'Holy Eve' in Stalingrad

Life in tired, drab, shabby Britain

Battle training in the far north of Britain

Trench warfare in the Caucasus

Bomber vs Fighter over the North Sea

A hospital within the Stalingrad cauldron

Spies Who Changed History

Italy wants to seek terms with Russia

Hitler's Mass Murder of Jews recognised

'Winter Storm' blocked by Red Army

Hoping for a 'Heimatschuss'

Guadalcanal Marines receive their orders

Hopes are raised inside the Stalingrad 'kessel'

Frankton: Four survivors place limpet mines

Survivors of Stalingrad

The Eighth Army advance reaches El Agheila

Clearing out the Gas Chambers

Off to War on a Troopship

Struggle to survive as a POW

Canoe raiders launched from submarine

Low level bombing raid hits Holland

Poles suffer under the Nazis

Hitler's Panzers

Guadalcanal - 'Carlson's Raiders' return

German resistance stiffens in Tunisia

Royal Navy surprises an Italian destroyer

The noose tightens around Stalingrad

The Battle of Tassafaronga

A bomber pilot's sacrifice

Stalingrad - the fate of the Romanians

Save the last Bullet

The French Fleet scuttled

General Paulus asks for 'Freedom of action'

Goering - 'I will supply Stalingrad'

Stalingrad perimeter under strain

Navajo code talkers join the Marines

Partisans confront Germans in the East

Hitler's Romanian allies collapse

Stalingrad - the road to Disaster

Lucky Hitler's Big Mistakes

The British enter Benghazi

Surprise Soviet attack outside Stalingrad

An insight into Germany at war

The end of U-331

'The end of the beginning'

Desert air crash

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal continues

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

Battle school in Britain

Stalingrad - dawn attack

U-505 survives a direct hit

Hitler reinforces North Africa

U.S. forces land in North Africa

Hitler hides from his troops

To War with a 4th Hussar

Stalingrad - the winter arrives

Stalingrad - the looming threat

El Alamein - the chase is on

The tide turns against Rommel

Operation Supercharge

More bloody exchanges on Guadalcanal

El Alamein - the breakthrough begins

Stalingrad - City on Fire

Munich bombed

The hell of a Japanese Prison ship

El Alamein - Montgomery regroups

El Alamein - a faltering advance

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

USMC and US Army hold out on Guadalcanal

El Alamein - the infantry go forward

'Gunners - British Artillery in WWII'

The British Guns open up

The last hours before battle

A Sniper in Stalingrad

Work begins on the 'Death railway'

The Desert Army prepares to attack

Commandos face summary execution

Low level daylight bomber attack

The Desert Fox nearly breaks through

The struggle for the Tractor Factory in pictures

Unrelenting attacks in Stalingrad

Shot down over Malta

In action with the 'Cactus Air Force'

Prisoners of the Japanese

US Navy ambushes the 'Tokyo Express'

The 'sick bay' at Auschwitz

In Furious Skies

Torpedoed off Africa

The battle for the Red October factory canteen

Selected to live - in Treblinka

U-Boat survives ramming

'Coned' and shot down over Aachen

In the Russian trenches

In the German trenches

What happened to the Battleship

Queen Mary sinks cruiser

Hitler and Rommel

Ever more Bombing operations

Random bombing kills 32

USS Sculpin survives attack

On the 'Home Front' in Britain

Marines reinforced on Guadalcanal

Churchill's Arctic Convoys

RAF bomb Gestapo HQ

The Hell of the Eastern Front

Montgomery prepares to attack

Romanians on the Eastern Front

Brutal treatment of US prisoners

Commandos destroy power station

A worse hell than Auschwitz

Britain's Plot to Kill Hitler

Stalingrad - battle for the Grain Elevator

Wounded on the Eastern Front

USAAF bomb the Laconia rescue

Operation Muskatoon gets underway

PQ18 fights back

Luftwaffe's 'Golden comb' attack

Sinking of the Laconia

Princess Elizabeth at War

Death train to Belzec

'380 acres of complete devastation'

British prepare to attack in the desert

Henderson Field under attack

Hitler falls out with his High Command

The 'Magic Carpet' to Malta

Australian victory at Milne Bay

Hunting the U-Boats - America fights back

"Give me your children"

Under fire on Guadalcanal

Japanese threaten British POWs

Afrika Korps gets bogged down

Panzers halted at Battle of Alam el Halfa

Rommel's last throw of the dice

Desperate fight to hold New Guinea

Task Force 58

Carnage in Bristol

Will Stalingrad hold ?

The strain of a long U-boat patrol

Hazards of low level bombing

US and Japanese carriers clash

The bombing of Stalingrad begins

'Mystery' of the British raid on Dieppe

Hitler's War In Africa 1941-42

The Battle of the Tenaru

The ordeal of Jacob Vouza

The British raid on Dieppe

USAAF's first raid into Occupied Europe

Churchill and Stalin

Inspecting the gas chambers

Montgomery orders 'no retreat'

'On The Eastern Front At Seventeen'

The battle to save the SS Ohio

Attacks on Pedestal intensify

Pedestal under continuous attack

HMS Eagle sunk

Operation Pedestal gets underway

Germans reach the Soviet oilfields

US invasion fleet under attack

D-Day Gunners

Change of Command in the Desert

Fog bound duel off Cape Farewell

Final journey of the Warsaw orphans

The Rzhev 'Meat Grinder'

U-Boat ambushed by Submarine

Desert War standstill

Spitfire escort over the North Sea

Hitler's War in Pictures

USAAF arrive in England

The German thrust to Stalingrad

Germany moves to a war footing

Stalin orders "Not one step back"

Spitfire Ace downs four in a day

Shock SAS attack on German airfield

'Gardening' in the Bay of Biscay

Britain's Desert War in Egypt & Libya 1940-1942

Eastern front comes alive again

The Warsaw 'Grossaktion' begins

“Stand to! Tanks! Lots of the bastards"

Churchill demands 'severe ruthless bombing of Germany'

British and American tension

Pinned down in the Desert

HMS Unbroken navigates a minefield

Alistair Maclean's War

The murder of Yankel Meisel

Hitler moves to Werwolf HQ

New Zealanders attack in the desert

A view from the Egyptian base area

The end of the Rovno ghetto

Russian resistance stiffens on the Eastern front

'Black Sabbath' in Salonika

Tank Warfare 1939-1945

Australian counter-attack in the desert

U boat crew saved by airship

Shipped out of Tobruk as a POW

Disaster strikes Convoy PQ17

A day of shelling and being shelled

'Quiet, Dogged Confidence'

Convoy PQ-17: 'Convoy to scatter'

The evolving 'Holocaust by Bullets'

British stand fast at El Alamein

Churchill defends himself

The Tragedy of the Montevideo Maru

The 'sure kill' of U-158

Rommel captures Mersa Matruh

Hitler's new offensive in the East

A heroic defence in the desert

The end of the M.V. Putney Hill

Another 1000 bomber raid

Soviet POWs get 'special treatment'

"Let's sterilise the Jews"

Luftwaffe boosts German air defences

The shocking news from Tobruk

Tobruk falls

Roosevelt and Churchill meet again

Half a Million "Logs" - part 1

British retreat in the Desert

Malta struggles on

The 'Gazala Gallop' begins

Royal Navy confronts Italian battleships

Under Stuka attack at sea

'Black Saturday' in the Desert

Rommel maintains the pressure

Fighting in the Ukraine

A loyal soldier executed by the Nazis

Massacre at Lidice

Taken prisoner in the desert

Welcome to Malta

Hope and Despair in the Warsaw Ghetto

USS Yorktown's final hours

British infantry meets German armour

'Japanese Carriers and Victory in the Pacific'

The Battle of Midway

Trench warfare on the Eastern Front

Jewish life in Germany

Free French defend Bir Hacheim

British 'boxes' begin to be overrun

1000 RAF bombers target Cologne

New Grant tanks enter the action

Red Tobruk

Returning to duty on the Eastern Front

British struggle to respond to Rommel

Rommel's surprise Gazala attack

US Navy breaks Japanese Code

Public demand 'Second Front'

Blind-flying duel over southern England

No 'Second Front' yet

Long Range Desert Group

Spitfires defend Malta

The final stages of the Burma retreat

Jews live in terror in Poland

'Bustard Hunt' succeeds on Kerch

Prinz Eugen sneaks back to Germany

Churchill on the 'stony road' ahead

The sinking of HMS Trinidad

The Hitler Assassination Attempts

Behind enemy lines in the Desert

Night patrol across the desert in No Mans Land

Pasadena Japanese take taxi to internment

On a cattle wagon to Sobibor

The real 'Dads Army'

USCGC Icarus sinks U-352

The Battle of the Coral Sea

Airborne Anti Submarine Warfare

U-boat escapes destruction off Florida

The surrender of Corregidor

The invasion of Madagascar

Flying Tigers over China

'Exeter was a jewel - we have destroyed it'

HMS Edinburgh's last battle

U-boat patrol in the Barents Sea

Life and Death on the Eastern Front

HMS Edinburgh torpedoed

Gurkha's fighting retreat

Hitler speech betrays his thinking

Norwich suffers heavy casualties

The USS Lexington goes to war

Bath fire bombed in reprisal raid

Torment continues on Bataan

The Terror Raids of 1942

Rostock burns in second 'area bombing'

Norwegian SS fight off Red Army

Spitfire v Me 109 over Malta

Spitfires fly off USS Wasp

The Battle of Yenangyaung

Doolittle Raid on Tokyo shocks Japan

Low Level Lancaster raid on Augsburg

‘U-Boats at War in a 100 Objects'

Eastern front remains static

Malta awarded George Cross

First U-Boat kill for US Navy

US Navy assists the Royal Navy

Nazi lies facilitate Mass Murder

Horror of the 'Bataan Death March'

A fighter sweep across the Channel

RAF at the Crossroads

American forces surrender on Bataan

Montgomery sets his standards

Medal of Honor for Macassar POW

The end nears on Bataan

HMS Dorsetshire and Cornwall sunk

Britain avoids 'Second Pearl Harbor'

The 'burnt man' adrift on the frozen sea

Out of the Depths of Hell

The heroic defence of Malta's airfields

U.S. calls for invasion of Europe in 1943

Britain's poor war performance

'Area Bombing' gets scientific support

RAF bomb the medieval city of Lubeck

Suicidal Commando raid on St Nazaire

Fighters clash over the desert

The War on the Eastern Front

Burma retreat continues

The First Train to Auschwitz

Flying Tigers attack Chiang Mai

Hitler warns of threat in the west

Italian battle fleet attacks Malta convoy

Malta suffers heaviest air raid yet

Soviet Army trapped in northern forests

The Brookwood Killers

U.S. locks up ethnic Japanese

Words of encouragement from FDR

Belzec opens for industrial murder

Fear and hunger in the Lodz ghetto

Hitler remembers German war dead

Australia looks to America

German troops suffer in Russia

The Second World War Illustrated

Filipinos suffer under Japanese

U.S. forces continue the bitter fight for Bataan

First Lancaster bombing raid

Hunting the Tirpitz off Norway

RAF low level 'precision' bombing

US Ambassador on Churchill's future

The desert Arabs in the middle

'Airborne Warfare 1939-1945'

Japanese atrocities in Hong Kong

Submarine sneaks into Corfu harbour

The RAF bomb Paris

Rescued by the Japanese Navy

HMS Exeter's final battle

USS Houston sunk off Java

First Burma Campaign

The Bruneval Raid

The ice road that saved Leningrad

The Battle of Los Angeles

Prisoner snatch in the Desert

Escape across the Sittang River

Blowing the bridge over the Sittang

SS unit targets Belorussian villagers

USS Lexington fighters hit Japanese

Escape to Japanese Captivity

Australia shocked by bombing raid

Chinese massacred in Singapore

Vengeance of the Red Army

Heroic work saves HMS Thrasher from oblivion

The Fall of Singapore

Two gallant last stands in Singapore

Last desperate hours in Singapore

The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe 1939-1945

The 'Channel Dash'

The Japanese advance into Burma

Wary encounters on the Eastern Front

The attack on Singapore begins

The death of Fritz Todt

Rommel halted at Gazala

Torpedo attack on a convoy

'Hitler's Court'

Nazi savagery in Warsaw

Hermann Goring meets the Italians

Fear and heroism in the Bataan jungle

The unhappy crew of U-581

US Navy Carriers in first Pacific attacks

Bombing of Singapore intensifies

Hitler threatens the Jews again

The Jungle War Against the Japanese

Winston Churchill defends his record

Surviving alone in the desert

British face up to more bad war news

First U.S. Troops arrive in the E.T.O.

U-boat in gun duel with merchantman

US Destroyers surprise Japanese

Japanese still advancing down Bataan

The Jungle War against the Japanese

Japanese massacre wounded men

Rommel attacks again in the desert

'The Final Solution to the Jewish Question'

The Holocaust moves to the next stage

Australians ambush the Japanese again

U-Boats move to the U.S. east coast

Churchill's transatlantic crossing

'Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front'

Australians ambush the Japanese

Manchester bomber 'fails to return'

Daylight raid on Lowestoft kills 63

'Conspicious gallantry' in Bataan

U-boat hunters over the Atlantic

Rommel remains confident

On a troopship bound overseas

'Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front'

The frontline outside Leningrad

Japanese break through in Malaya

Nazi atrocities on the record

US and Philippine forces retreat to the Bataan peninsula

Soldiers' corpses as frozen sculptures

Fighting off a Bayonet attack

A narrow escape in Mid Atlantic

The Americans and Germans at Bastogne

The "United Nations" is born