When Canada entered World War II, in 1939, the Royal Canadian Air Force had a glorious history fr...

In 1939, Germany unleashed a new form of warfare on Europe - blitzkrieg, or 'lightning war'. The ...

Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-D...

On August 15, 1942, the 82nd Airborne became the US Army's first airborne division. Commanded by ...

A fully illustrated narrative of the Red Army's advance west, culminating in the fall of Berlin i...

A fully illustrated survey of the German infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.

A fully illustrated introduction to the men who fought in the Panzerwaffe--the mailed fist of Bli...

The selection of wartime photographs - many from east European sources - and the extensive quotat...

Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off fr...

The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an...

After its operations in the Cotentin and around Carentan, the 101st was withdrawn from the lines ...

On 10 May 1940, German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht.