On August 19,1942, the British mounted Operation Jubilee, a large scale raid on the port of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France. Some 4,900 Canad...

Members of the Women's Land Army ploughing in Hertfordshire, March 1942. Between January 1942 and D-Day in 1944 more than a million and ...

Britain was emphatically a nation at war. Food rationing began in January 1940, and that autumn saw the beginning of the London Blitz, with ...

British infantry advance in open order on October 24. The infantry was tasked with “crumbling” Rommel's defences. An Advanced Dressing S...

The fall of Tobruk on June 21, was a heavy blow to Churchill. Here the first German vehicle to enter the town pauses in front of abandoned v...

In 1942, Allied fortunes in North Africa ebbed at first, when the German General Erwin Rommel turned the strong defensive line running from ...

In Russia the Germans survived the crisis of the Russian winter counteroffensive, and in April 1942 Hitler issued orders for Operation Blue,...