The ordeal of convoy PQ-17 is indicative of Nazi efforts to sever the lend-lease lifeline to the Soviet Union.   More »

Mussolini lost his empire in East Africa to a relative handful of Commonwealth troops.   More »

Life as it was known and understood changed forever when World War II began in 1939.   More »

Sir Richard O’ Connor and Operation Compass stunned the Italian forces in North Africa.   More »

Britain’s policy of dealing with the Nazis in the 1930s engendered stern warnings   More »

Determined to preserve its access to the Suez Canal, Israel launched a surprise attack in the Sinai Peninsula, catching the Egyptian Army entirely by surprise.   More »

By Michael Hull
As powerful, fast-moving German panzer and infantry columnsrampaged across Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and into northern France early in May 1940, the British held their breath and watched apprehensively from across the narrow English Channel.
The lightning “blitzkrieg” advance split the retreating French and British armies, and the outlook was   More »

By Michael D. Hull
When German dictator Adolf Hitler loosed his troops into Poland on Friday, September 1, 1939, he hoped that a lightning conquest would result in a negotiated peace with Great Britain and France.
Hitler’s previous territorial moves during the appeasement years had failed to provoke the two nations into   More »

Was Franklin Roosevelt planning to intervene on Great Britain’s behalf before Pearl Harbor? Winston Churchill, for one, thought so.   More »

The evacuation of the BEF by civilian and military vessels during the fall of France in 1940 ensured the British Army would fight another day.   More »