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Suicidal Soviet assault on Waffen SS
Russian POWs arrive in Germany
The Judenstern arrives in Germany
'Escort Carriers' to protect Convoys
RAF Fighter pilots support Red Army
Surviving the 'Holocaust by Bullets'
First U-Boat sunk by Canadian Navy
The Germans approach Leningrad
RAF attack German supply lines
The Third Reich in 100 Objects
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
The ‘Soviet Dunkirk’ - the evacuation of Tallinn
In the ‘dank and steamy’ Malayan jungle
Hurricane v Ju 88 over the Irish Sea
Operation Gauntlet - the Spitzbergen Raid
The power of the 'English speaking nations'
Guderian urges continued thrust to Moscow
Divebombers diverted to aid Army Group North
Bila Tserkva II: Children's murder is botched
The Jews are shot - what now for their children?
Patrolling outside the Tobruk wire
'MI5: British Security Service Operations'
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 pray together
A German soldier just wants to survive
A Russian View of the Front Line
Death approaches on the Eastern front
'the infamous, bombed Tobruk Hospital'
A German view of the 'Bolsheviks'
First "kill" by rocket launched fighter
Life and Death on the Eastern Front
Smuggling is key to Jewish survival
Tobruk - bombed by night and day
Army Group Centre grinds to a halt
Dawn breaks over the battlefield
Hitler loses sleep over Barbarossa
The last pictures of the Jews of Mogilev
German High Command challenged
Torpedo attack on Malta convoy
'USA ... in the war within 6 weeks'
First Luftwaffe Raid on Moscow
'V for Victory' spreads across Europe
Trapped in the sunken HMS Umpire
Trekking out to sleep in a Piggery
'Twin Pimples' - an early SAS style raid
A German 'Garden of Eden' in the East
'You do your worst – and we will do our best.'
The Wehrmacht presses on into Russia
A job of work for the Einsatzgruppen
Hitler believes the war is nearly over
Bayonet attack on a machine gun post
United States Marines land on Iceland
Otto Carius, later a 'tank ace', escapes death
Out on the wing to fight a fire
Panzers outgunned by Soviet tanks
'Radio Operator on the Eastern Front'
Chaplain chooses to die with his men
Disabled pilot leads low level daylight raid
The horrors of the Russian front
Still stuck, sweltering, in Tobruk
The reality of the 'Ostfront' slowly emerges
The Wehrmacht are welcomed in Busk
The German Army arrives in town
RAF 'Circus 26' - 'an offensive sweep'
'Some curious goings-on behind that wall'
The Blitz on Britain continues
Barbarossa - facing 'a bitter, bitter enemy'
Wehrmacht surprised by monster tank
Barbarossa - Hitler invades the Soviet Union
'Barbarossa through Soviet Eyes'
'Exercises' on the Russian border
Hitler broods on the eve of battle
Courage overcomes French Legion
Rommel counter-attacks in the desert
'United we stand. Divided we fall'
British tank versus German panzer
Mass deportations from Estonia
Badly Wounded, a POW, and Starving
Inter-Allied agreement in London
'No one enjoyed killing Frenchmen'
Churchill defends the Battle of Crete
Heavy casualties on the Litani River
German armies gather in Eastern Poland
A portent for the invasion of Britain?
Luftwaffe surprised by lone bomber
Civilians massacred at Kondomari
Bismarck: fateful decisions in the balance
The ordeal of evacuation by warship
Crete - retreat over the mountains
The Bismarck is spotted and torpedoed
Attack and counter-attack on Crete
Crete - possession of the airfields is vital
Bismarck sails for Operation Rhine
Royal Navy face sustained Stuka attacks
Hess escapade raises spirits in Britain
HMS Ladybird goes down fighting
London Devastated in Huge Raid
Churchill faces vote in Parliament
Germany prepares for war in the east
Starvation on the streets of Warsaw
Another war breaks out in Iraq
Hitler sets date for Barbarossa
Churchill inspires Britain to fight on
'Target Corinth Canal 1940-44'
Dive bombing tactics over Tobruk
Everyday humiliations in the Warsaw Ghetto
Rommel despairs of the Italians
Greek Army surrenders to the Germans
The Defence and Fall of Greece 1940-1941
Direct hit kills 34 Firemen and women
The Germans catch up with the rearguard
Mass casualties in Belfast Blitz
First tank attack on Tobruk repelled
United States to occupy Greenland
Hitler strikes at Greece and Yugoslavia
The New Zealanders arrive in Greece
Rommel 'can't sleep for happiness'
Rommel pushes forward in the Desert
Rescue at Sea - the aftermath of Matapan
Italian Fleet ambushed off Cape Matapan
'Better the grave than a slave '
Diplomatic intrigue and speculation
The Morrison Shelter is introduced
Nazi 'Battle Cruisers' in the Atlantic
Churchill broadcasts to America
Radar leads to U-Boat sinkings
Hitler hints at expanding the war
Gratitude to USA for 'inspiring act of faith"
Depth charge attack forces U-boat up
Hitler - Japan must be encouraged to attack
Operation Claymore: The Lofoten Raid
Churchill - Do not feed the French
Luftwaffe attacks increase in Africa
'Luftwaffe Bomber Aces: Men, Machines, Methods'
'Rhubarb raids' over France and Belgium
Brutal suppression of Dutch Strike
Britain to intervene in Greece
'Hitler’s War In Africa 1941-1942'
'Possible German Troops in Libya'
Under shellfire in the Battle for Keren
Under Stuka attack in Benghazi
Direct hit on shelter kills dozens
Should Britain support Greece?
The assault on London continues
Random savagery in the Warsaw ghetto
Bomber crews abandon aircraft in fog
Behind Enemy Lines by Moonlight
'Give us the tools and we will finish the job'
'Electric Whiskers' was 'outnumbered'
Beda Fomm: Italian collapse in the desert
Invasion of Britain still possible
South Africans advance into Abyssinia
Rationing and shortages in Britain
RAF Coastal Command under attack
The 'British' attack in Abyssinia
Invasion expected in the Spring
Deaths rise in the Polish ghettoes
"This island needs our help now, Mr President"
'The Second World War Illustrated'
Heavy casualties at Bank Station
The Luftwaffe attack in the Mediterranean
Masses of POWs to be cared for
Italian defence of Bardia crumbles