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The mystery of the tiny French village exterminated by the Nazis Oradour-sur-Glane was flattened by the Nazis in 1944; its inhabitants massacred. With help from survivors, a new book unravels the atrocity The silent village: Oradour-sur-Glane On the morning of June 10, 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was – like the rest of France – hopeful. It was just days after the Allies had successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy – D-Day on June 6 – following four years under the...

Advertisement It was the fighter plane that flew in the more famous Spitfires shadow during the Second World War, even though it downed more Nazi planes.  Armed with cannons and bombs, the Hawker Hurricane was responsible for 55 per cent of the RAFs air victories over Luftwaffe pilots and around 70 per cent of kills during the Battle of Britain.  Now, a new documentary shows the moment the daughter of a World War Two Hurricane pilot takes to the skies in her fathers plane.   Eugenie Brooks,...

The strategic implications of the damage at Natanz The strategic implications of the damage at Natanz The United States should be appreciative of any significant delay in Iran’s breakout timetable towards a nuclear weapon. The time gained can and should be used to negotiate a “longer, stronger” agreement. (April 21, 2021 / Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security) The Iranian regime is eager to generate a sense of urgency in the West, pushing the Biden administration to give up its sa...

Air Commodore Peter Malam Brothers destroyed 16 enemy aircraft during WWII  Was veteran of Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Dieppe raid and D-Day Most of his kills came in 1940 when he served as one of the The Few Air Commodore Brothers was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice Also received the Distinguished Service Order and the CBE for bravery  

Nazi Germany created the the largest, heaviest artillery piece ever used in combat. Heres What You Need To Remember: Due to complications in building such a massive gun, the  Schwerer Gustav was not used against the Maginot Line, though it did see action against the Red Army. Leading up to the Second World War, one of the obstacles that loomed large in the eyes of the German High Command was the French Maginot Line. The Line was one of the strongest defensive fortifications ever built and...

Operation Sea Lion: The Nazi Invasion of Britain that Never Happened Examining an invasion plan that, if executed correctly, could have changed the course of World War II and of world history.  Heres What You Need To Remember: Nazi warplanners knew that Operation Sea Lion was doomed unless Germany controlled the skies over the English Channel. Without doubt, the fall of France was an unmitigated disaster for the Allied cause. However, for all its failures in command, strategy, and tactics, i...

Julia Parsons holds a World War II-era photo of herself. (Courtesy Veterans Breakfast Club in Pittsburgh) 1 Mar 2021 A World War II code breaker who helped hunt down Nazi U-boats turns 100 on Tuesday and will be honored with a parade past her house in Pittsburgh. Julia Parsons, who served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or Navy WAVES, said her work was aided enormously by the sheer arrogance of the German High Command in believing that the allies couldnt possibly break th...

Kaushik Patowary Feb 15, 2021 0 comments The city of Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in Russia and in eastern Europe, with a great ensemble of historic buildings, gilded palaces, and baroque bridges and churches. Founded by Peter the Great as a “window to Europe” Saint Petersburg’s has a very cosmopolitan character, unique among Russian cities, but behind all the gilt and glory lurks a darker past, going back by less than eighty years, when Hitler had the city bombed,...

World War I in the Balkans: Who Were the "Gardeners of Salonika"? While their comrades manned the trenches of the Western Front, a force of one million Allied troops languished in the dreary Greek port of Salonika. Heres What You Need to Know: The Salonika campaign cost the Allies 165,800 combat fatalities. The Germans mocked it as their largest prisoner-of-war camp, and French Premier Georges Clemenceau was hardly less withering in his opinion of the Allied stronghold at Salonika, Greece. “...

How the Red Army Saved Leningrad in 1941 The Soviet Red Army blunted a German drive to capture the town of Tikhvin and seal the fate of Leningrad during Operation Barbarossa. Heres What You Need to Know: German forces in the north would never again be so close to totally cutting off the city. The men of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe Nord (Army Group North) had little sleep during the night of June 21, 1941. Long before midnight, assault infantry and engineers had begun...