When Adolf Hitler marched his troops into Poland on September 1, 1939, the Second World War was inevitable. As the op...

As the New Year dawned and the people of Britain faced the introduction of rationing, all eyes turned northwards to S...

When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the wartime coalition government in May 1940 he pledged his "blood, t...

With mainland Europe under Hitler's control, the German Führer turned his attention to Operation Sealion, and the Bat...

Worldwide, the conflict continued to escalate as Japan made their presence felt as signatories of the Tripartite Pact...

The Luftwaffe continued its attempts to bomb Britain into submission, while the German Afrika Korps strengthened its ...

With Britain failing to fall at Hitler's feet, the Blitz drew to a close, as the Führer turned his attention eastward...

If Hitler had expected a decisive victory in Russia, at speed, he was thwarted at every turn and while the Luftwaffe ...

As Hitler and the Germans focused on Russia, the situation in the Pacific developed to epic proportions when the Japa...

With Britain no longer facing Hitler alone, the first G.l.s arrived in the UK, while the Japanese took the advantage ...

It was time for the American Navy to get back on course after Pearl Harbor, and in the four-day Battle for the Coral ...

Hitler's "Desert Fox", Rommel pushed forward at El Alamein, but with the arrival of the maverick British General, Ber...

After so many years of German supremacy, as 1942 drew to a close, the Allies were really beginning to make headway. T...

The only option for the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad was surrender, while all across Russia the Red Army consolida...

Even with little hope of making an impact against the Germans, the fight for freedom continued. Polish Jews of the Wa...

From their success in North Africa the Allies were ready to return to occupied Europe, first landing on Sicily before...

While Hitler faced frustrations on all fronts, the Japanese were kept at bay by the Americans, despite heavy casualti...

As winter gave way to spring the world watched and waited as the Allied forces prepared for Operation Overlord. Brave...

One of the main reasons for the success of the D-Day landings was the element of surprise, the incredibly huge invasi...

As the liberation of France got underway, the citizens of a nation oppressed since 1940 celebrated the Allied arrival...

Despite Hitler's position was worsening by the day, the Nazis were still capable of inflicting terrible damage, and w...

While the Russians moved towards Germany from the East, and the Western allies attacked from the opposite direction, ...

The Russians entered Berlin first, and as Hitler took his own life in his bunker, the war in Europe finally came to a...

With Europe sifting through the rubble of a long and bitter war, the Japanese, true to their cultural heritage refuse...