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Plan Contingency G[reece] (First Italian attempt of invasion of Greece to conquer the Ionian Islands, the Sporades and the Cyclades islands to restore the old Venetian Empire, annexing the Epirus and Acarnania regions to Italian Albania, while also establishing a pro-Axis Greek puppet state. Carried out on 28 October 1940 and start of Greco ...
Child's ration book. 1 January – World War II: Britain calls up 2,000,000 19- to 27-year-olds for military service. 3 January – Unity Mitford, daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and fervent admirer of Adolf Hitler, having attempted suicide, returns to England from Germany (via Switzerland); she is carried down the gangplank of the cross-channel ferry at Folkestone on a ...
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...
The first war tax is revealed by the Cabinet, including a significant increase in income taxes. 1 October 1939 Call-Up Proclamation: all men aged 20–21 who have not already done so must apply for registration with the military authorities. 6 October 1939 With the end of formal Polish resistance the Phoney War begins; It lasts until April 1940 ...
History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes. Available online for downloading; online volumes; The standard highly detailed full coverage of operations. Haswell, Jock, and John Lewis-Stempel. A Brief History of the British Army (2017). Higham, John, ed.
Britain's war machine: weapons, resources, and experts in the Second World War (Oxford UP, 2011). Edgerton, David. Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970 (Cambridge UP, 2005) Gowing, Margaret. "The organisation of manpower in Britain during the Second World War." Journal of Contemporary History 7.1 (1972): 147-167
A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
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