World War II begins. Germany captures Paris ... same railroad car in which Germans signed the armistice of 1918. The Battle of Britain begins. A three-month battle fought in the skies over ...

World War II will forever be remembered as one of the ... but the most important was the fragility of human life. Countless battles took place throughout this war, ending numerous lives.

The second phase of Operation Compass took the battle into Cyrenaica. The coastal town of Bardia fell on 5 January 1941, two days after being attacked, and 40,000 prisoners were taken. The port of ...