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On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river,...
Following a lull in the desert war which saw the Germans and British reinforce their armies,...
The last great heave of war,' according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine...
In April 2003, after brief combat, Baghdad fell under US control and the Coalition Provisional...
The battle of El Alamein marked the turning point in Britain's fortunes in the Second World War....
The battle around Falaise in Normandy during August 1944 saw the destruction of the German...
The ferocity of the Pacific war almost defied the available military technology. In this...
One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital...
The battle for Cassino was probably the most bitter struggle of the entire Italian campaign. The...
The Dieppe raid of August 1942 is one of the most controversial actions of World War II....
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military...
At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal...
The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined...
Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War the battle for the Rhineland...
The Civil war fought in Spain between 1936 and 1939 was one of the most bloody and bitterly...
In 1940 Japan placed Vietnam under military occupation, restricting the local French...
Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War Two, General Sir Robert Cassels,...
Elite units have long been prominent in the armies of South-East Asia and, given the turmoil in...
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and...
As World War II drew to a close, the Imperial Japanese military seized control of Laos, a French...
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