The 10 best World War 2 movies ever made | All About History
Apr 6, 2016 · Famous for featuring Mark Hamill in between Star Wars movies, this is director Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical account of life in the 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One of the title). It follows four men in a squad led by their Sergeant (Lee Marvin), who experience action in North Africa, Sicily and Czechoslovakia, where they help ...
3 bad decisions that cost Hitler World War 2 | All About History
Sep 26, 2014 · 2. Not attacking Moscow. Hitler was presented with a real chance of winning the war during the initial invasion of the Soviet Union. Although risky, if Germany had managed to take Moscow before the winter of 1941, Russia’s main railroad system would have been cut off, causing great disruption to the movement of Soviet troops.
“Gung-ho misfits” – Saul David on WW2 British Airborne
Jun 19, 2024 · Related: 8 Greatest British Commando Missions of World War 2. Much more successful was Operation Biting the following year, also known as the Bruneval Raid. Airborne troops dropped into Northern France, capturing and then extricating bits of a Würzburg early warning radar system to be brought back to the UK. Bruneval was a tri-service operation.
Starvation Experiment During World War Two Comes to Light
Jan 20, 2014 · A new story about a controversial experiment on World War Two soldiers has been reported. Known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, men from the US and UK were asked to volunteer for medical research and in one such project, young men were starved for six months to help experts decide how to treat victims of mass starvation in Europe.
Britain’s World War II Refugees | All About History
Sep 7, 2015 · World War II saw the most remarkable and large-scale migration of people to Britain in its history. Britain’s population became more diverse than it had ever been before. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, refugees and war workers came from the British Empire and the Commonwealth, the United States, occupied Europe, and neutral countries like Ireland.
World War Two Bomb Defused in Hong Kong | All About History
Feb 8, 2014 · Hong Kong Police have successfully defused a 2,000lb bomb from World War Two, described as the biggest wartime bomb to be found in the country. The AN-M66 bomb contained more than 1,000lbs of explosives. The bomb is believed to be have been dropped by the US Navy during the war when Japan occupied the then British colony.
The Sino-Soviet Border War: Why the USSR nearly nuked China
Aug 30, 2016 · Even after the Sino-Soviet Border War ended, Brezhnev knew better than to take his eye off the region, and by 1971 44 divisions of around 10,000-13,000 men, or 32-40 aircraft each – up from 22 divisions in 1969 – were keeping watch over the vast 4,380-kilometre (2,738-mile) shared border – along with the complex infrastructure required to ...
Gallipoli Dissected: What did Britain get wrong?
Mar 10, 2015 · In the run up to the 100th anniversary of the start of the Dardanelles campaign, we speak to Nigel Steel, Principal Historian for the Imperial War Museums’ World War I Centenary Programme and co-author of Defeat At Gallipoli about what really went wrong, and how this brutal clash under the Mediterranean sun would shape the national identities of three nations…
Hitler at War: All About History issue 2 free preview
Jul 25, 2013 · Hitler at War. To what extent did the Führer’s military leadership style affect the outcome of World War II? We get expert Dr Geoffrey Megargee’s verdict on Adolf Hitler’s tactical prowess. Empire vs Empire. The most powerful civilisations the world has ever seen face-off for the title of greatest empire of all time. The Other Cold War
The Suffragists in World War I | All About History
Oct 27, 2015 · Pre-World War I Suffragists. Most contemporary thought on suffrage is all hunger strikes, force feeding and running in front of the king’s horse; there was much more to it than that. The roots can be traced back to as early as 1868 when Millicent Fawcett joined the London Suffrage Committee.