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'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
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
Italy wants to seek terms with Russia
Hitler's Mass Murder of Jews recognised
'Winter Storm' blocked by Red Army
Guadalcanal Marines receive their orders
Hopes are raised inside the Stalingrad 'kessel'
Frankton: Four survivors place limpet mines
The Eighth Army advance reaches El Agheila
Canoe raiders launched from submarine
Low level bombing raid hits Holland
Guadalcanal - 'Carlson's Raiders' return
German resistance stiffens in Tunisia
Royal Navy surprises an Italian destroyer
The noose tightens around Stalingrad
Stalingrad - the fate of the Romanians
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
Surprise Soviet attack outside Stalingrad
An insight into Germany at war
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal continues
Hitler reinforces North Africa
U.S. forces land in North Africa
Stalingrad - the winter arrives
Stalingrad - the looming threat
More bloody exchanges on Guadalcanal
El Alamein - the breakthrough begins
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'
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
In action with the 'Cactus Air Force'
US Navy ambushes the 'Tokyo Express'
The battle for the Red October factory canteen
Selected to live - in Treblinka
'Coned' and shot down over Aachen
What happened to the Battleship
On the 'Home Front' in Britain
Marines reinforced on Guadalcanal
Romanians on the Eastern Front
Brutal treatment of US prisoners
Commandos destroy power station
Stalingrad - battle for the Grain Elevator
Operation Muskatoon gets underway
Luftwaffe's 'Golden comb' attack
'380 acres of complete devastation'
British prepare to attack in the desert
Hitler falls out with his High Command
Australian victory at Milne Bay
Hunting the U-Boats - America fights back
Japanese threaten British POWs
Panzers halted at Battle of Alam el Halfa
Rommel's last throw of the dice
Desperate fight to hold New Guinea
The strain of a long U-boat patrol
US and Japanese carriers clash
The bombing of Stalingrad begins
'Mystery' of the British raid on Dieppe
Hitler's War In Africa 1941-42
USAAF's first raid into Occupied Europe
Montgomery orders 'no retreat'
'On The Eastern Front At Seventeen'
The battle to save the SS Ohio
Pedestal under continuous attack
Operation Pedestal gets underway
Germans reach the Soviet oilfields
US invasion fleet under attack
Change of Command in the Desert
Fog bound duel off Cape Farewell
Final journey of the Warsaw orphans
Spitfire escort over the North Sea
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'
HMS Unbroken navigates a minefield
New Zealanders attack in the desert
A view from the Egyptian base area
Russian resistance stiffens on the Eastern front
Australian counter-attack in the desert
Shipped out of Tobruk as a POW
A day of shelling and being shelled
Convoy PQ-17: 'Convoy to scatter'
The evolving 'Holocaust by Bullets'
British stand fast at El Alamein
The Tragedy of the Montevideo Maru
Hitler's new offensive in the East
A heroic defence in the desert
The end of the M.V. Putney Hill
Soviet POWs get 'special treatment'
Luftwaffe boosts German air defences
Roosevelt and Churchill meet again
Half a Million "Logs" - part 1
Royal Navy confronts Italian battleships
'Black Saturday' in the Desert
A loyal soldier executed by the Nazis
Hope and Despair in the Warsaw Ghetto
British infantry meets German armour
'Japanese Carriers and Victory in the Pacific'
Trench warfare on the Eastern Front
Free French defend Bir Hacheim
British 'boxes' begin to be overrun
1000 RAF bombers target Cologne
New Grant tanks enter the action
Returning to duty on the Eastern Front
British struggle to respond to Rommel
Rommel's surprise Gazala attack
Blind-flying duel over southern England
The final stages of the Burma retreat
'Bustard Hunt' succeeds on Kerch
Prinz Eugen sneaks back to Germany
Churchill on the 'stony road' ahead
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
Airborne Anti Submarine Warfare
U-boat escapes destruction off Florida
'Exeter was a jewel - we have destroyed it'
U-boat patrol in the Barents Sea
Life and Death on the Eastern Front
Hitler speech betrays his thinking
Norwich suffers heavy casualties
Bath fire bombed in reprisal raid
Rostock burns in second 'area bombing'
Norwegian SS fight off Red Army
Doolittle Raid on Tokyo shocks Japan
Low Level Lancaster raid on Augsburg
‘U-Boats at War in a 100 Objects'
US Navy assists the Royal Navy
Nazi lies facilitate Mass Murder
Horror of the 'Bataan Death March'
A fighter sweep across the Channel
American forces surrender on Bataan
Medal of Honor for Macassar POW
HMS Dorsetshire and Cornwall sunk
Britain avoids 'Second Pearl Harbor'
The 'burnt man' adrift on the frozen sea
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
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
Words of encouragement from FDR
Belzec opens for industrial murder
Fear and hunger in the Lodz ghetto
Hitler remembers German war dead
German troops suffer in Russia
The Second World War Illustrated
Filipinos suffer under Japanese
U.S. forces continue the bitter fight for Bataan
Hunting the Tirpitz off Norway
RAF low level 'precision' bombing
US Ambassador on Churchill's future
The desert Arabs in the middle
Japanese atrocities in Hong Kong
Submarine sneaks into Corfu harbour
The ice road that saved Leningrad
Escape across the Sittang River
Blowing the bridge over the Sittang
SS unit targets Belorussian villagers
USS Lexington fighters hit Japanese
Australia shocked by bombing raid
Chinese massacred in Singapore
Heroic work saves HMS Thrasher from oblivion
Two gallant last stands in Singapore
Last desperate hours in Singapore
The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe 1939-1945
The Japanese advance into Burma
Wary encounters on the Eastern Front
The attack on Singapore begins
Hermann Goring meets the Italians
Fear and heroism in the Bataan jungle
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
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
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
'Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front'
The frontline outside Leningrad
Japanese break through in Malaya
US and Philippine forces retreat to the Bataan peninsula
Soldiers' corpses as frozen sculptures
A narrow escape in Mid Atlantic