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The 10 best World War 2 movies ever made. 10. The Dam Busters. Director Michael Anderson, 1955. When the British were seeking a way to halt the German war machine, they looked to the industrialised area of the Ruhr Valley, the site of hydro-electric power stations, factories and mines. Operation Chastise was designed to breach the Möhne ...
The telling factor is the production numbers. Between 1942 and 1944, the Germans only produced 1,558 Tigers. Compare that to 40,000 Shermans and up to 70,000 T-34s. The Germans spent of a lot of time and money sourcing the best materials for the best companies. All the equipment was very high quality but this was a drawback when producing numbers.
HMS Campbeltown being converted for the raid. 1. St Nazaire Raid (28 March 1942) One of the finest acts of courage in the whole of World War II, the raid on St Nazaire was a true gamble. The best way to hurt the Kriegsmarine was to strike its dockyards, so the port became a key target for the British in what would be known as Operation Chariot.
History of War. Historian and author Saul David. (Photo: Stéphane Cojot-Goldberg) Saul David tells the story of the legendary British airborne troops in his latest book, Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War. Nicknamed the ‘Red Devils’, they began as a parachute battalion with just 500 men in June 1940.
Stalin was fascinating in that way. I call him the worst and best grand strategist. In many ways, he was disastrous from 1939 to 1941, empowering Hitler with the Nazi-Soviet pact and allowing massive German expansion. Stalin enabled Germany to get strong and provided them with a massive amount of resources.
December each year focuses the mind on the winter Ardennes Campaign of 1944, one of Germany’s last major offensives against the Western Allies after D-Day. It began on 16 December in appalling weather and took the Allies by complete surprise. However, after some initial successes, the attack had stalled by Christmas and petered out by mid ...
Hurricane tells the story of the storm that raged over England in the summer of 1940, and the Polish pilots that came to defend Britain against German invasion.
On 14 June 1940, the German Blitzkrieg rolled into the French capital and would begin a near-four year occupation until the city’s liberation by the Allies on 25 August 1944, near the end of World War 2. Unknown to many, Paris, ‘the city of love’, was nearly burned to the ground by the Nazis. By August 1944, the Nazi war machine was in ...
John Lewes is the nephew and biographer of the first book on Lt. Jock Lewes, Jock Lewes Co-Founder of the SAS. He is providing commentary for Episode 1 of BBC Television’s Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre in early 2017. A Spy After All, also by John Lewes, is the novel inspired by the derring-do of Jock Lewes, merging fact and fiction.
9. Remus von Woyrsch (1847-1920) German Hero of the Eastern Front. Remus von Woyrsch’s career with the Prussian Army had already ended by 1914, but he was recalled from retirement when the First World War broke out, aged 68. Born of minor nobility, he had served in both the Austro-Prussian and Franco- Prussian Wars, receiving the Iron Cross ...