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An Army in Exile — Meet the Polish Units That Fought in the Battle of France
“Trapped on foreign soil after the catastrophic collapse of their own nation in September 1939, tens of thousands of Polish soldiers rebuilt their army in France, determined to continue the struggle against Nazi Germany.” By…
Alan Turing, a Nazi Scientist and the Secret History of Jump Jets
By Michael Pryce THE mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing is rightly famous for cracking codes to help break the Nazi war machine. You can imagine my surprise when I discovered that after the war…
The Hunt for Tomcat AB221 — Inside the U.S. Navy’s Race to Find a Crashed F-14 Jet Before the Soviets
Fifty years ago, the crash of the U.S. Navy’s most advanced fighter in British waters led to a desperate scramble to recover the wreck and safeguard its classified technology from the Russians By Steven Taylor…
Arras 1940 — Inside the doomed British tank attack that saved the Allied cause
“Tactically, the British had been defeated. Strategically, however, the story was very different.” By Hamish de Bretton-Gordon IN WAR, there are battles that are remembered because they were victories, and there are battles remembered because…
‘A Most Hateful Decision’ — Inside Britain’s Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers el-Kébir
“In total, 1,297 French sailors were killed in the attacks – men who, only days earlier, had stood as Britain’s allies.” By Edward Abel Smith THE amber dawn broke fiercely over the bay of Mers…
Operation Sea Lion — Inside the German Invasion Plan for Great Britain
“The goal was to land nearly a quarter of a million German soldiers along the British coast within the first two weeks of the assault.” By Robert Schreiner MOST students of Second World War history…
