The operation was designed to divert Axis attention away from Normandy, the site of the D-Day landing, and after the invasion ...

In April 1944, the Allies planned Exercise Tiger to practise their landing on France's Normandy beaches ahead of D-Day. During the rehearsal, a German fleet attacked, sinking two allied ships. Around ...

So, the Special Operations Executive, formed in June 1940, tasked agents with sabotage and subversion behind enemy lines. And ...

"'Surely no one in Oak Ridge seriously thought the United States could possibly lose World War II? She stared at him in disbelief ..." ...

Amy Buller’s Darkness of Germany describes the difficult decisions Germans faced as fascists took over their country – ...

In August 1944, as German forces retreated from France, they left behind three massive King Tigers in Châteaudun. One of them, Tank 11, was photographed extensively after the war. This Then & Now ...