The war service of the RMS Queen Mary made a vital contribution to the success of the Allies.   More »

Ralph Coyne fought across the South Pacific with the Australian 2/4 Commandos.   More »

Douglas Bader was a formidable foe in the air and as a prisoner of the Germans even though he had no legs.   More »

British tankers made a courageous, but ultimately futile, attempt to foil the German blitzkrieg in France on May 21, 1940.   More »

British interests in Europe clashed with American strategy in WWII. How the clash influenced the making of the Iron Curtain is debated to this day.   More »

By William E. Welsh
South of the crossroads of Arras in the Pas de Calais region of France, British and German troops are buried alongside each other. They were casualties of a gutsy British armored counterattack on May 21, 1940, by two British tank regiments against General-Major Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer   More »

Legends about the Christmas Truce in World War I abound, however the events of Christmas Day in 1914 remain shrouded in rumor.   More »

Dudley Clarke’s British Commandos carried out complex operations that were crucial to toppling the Axis powers in World War II.   More »

The planned 1940 cross-channel invasion of Britain, Operation Sea Lion, remains one of the great “what-ifs” of modern military history.   More »

Finding the Somosierra pass blocked by Spanish batteries, Napoleon ordered his Polish light horse to punch through the resistance.   More »