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During the early stages of WWII, the British Expeditionary Force and other Allied troops were rescued from the French seaport of Dunkirk and taken...

Operation Overlord, more famously known as D-Day, was launched on June 6, 1944. The Allied invasion of Western Europe began with the simultaneous...

The surprise aerial attack by the Japanese on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, on 7th December 1941, led to the United States entering...

The successful defence of Great Britain against air raids conducted by the German Luftwaffe from July through September 1940 became known as The...

For eight months the Germans bombarded Britain from above in an attempt to squash the Allied war effort. The country pulled together and stayed...

Many battles were fought out on the banks of the Rhine in 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden. It was the code name for a large Allied offensive...

It's a little-known part of World War II history: in the Allied secret services, one in ten spies was a woman. A look back at the journeys of these...

During the darkest days of the Third Reich, the most dreaded sound was a knock at the door after dark. Everyone who lived under Nazi rule lived in...

Exploring the buildings that were built to defend Britain from a German invasion during World War II. From coastal defences, to secret bases, travel...

Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole...