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DANGER ON THE LINE
By Austin Ruddy
… MILITARIA Britain’s railway industr y entered World War Two in a position of strength, but it would face … a struggle that we can evaluate using rare artefacts and discover what price Britain’s railways paid in victory. …
BITTER AND BLOODY
… from Ouistreham, a town almost completely rebuilt post-war and featuring a mock-up of Ouistreham’s casino. The … greeting their liberators, some shocked to discover that ‘the English’ spoke such good French. One man … Normandy for three months before they finally returned to Britain. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen Fisher is an archaeologist …
Massacre in the Marche
… POW MYSTERY A name on a war memorial and a cryptic comment in a soldier’s army … Bradford-on- Avon, Wiltshire. At the time I was unable to discover much about who he was and what had happened to him, … although his real age was 16 and nine months. He served in Britain for three years before he was posted to India in …
THE D-DAY STORY PORTSMOUTH
… visitors for almost 38 years. The only collection in Britain dedicated to Operation Overlord, it, in the words of … visitors solve a series of clandestine puzzles to discover clues revealing the accomplishments of the … concessions and group discounts can be found online. World War Two veterans enter free. Address: The D-Day Story museum, …
The Tank Museum
… Collections Callum Dickson travels south to one of Britain’s most iconic museums 75 years after it first opened … there’s never been a better time to visit. During World War One, as the stalemate on the Western Front dragged into … have had their stories featured, enabling visitors to discover how certain tanks were perceived by those who used …
THE ‘QUIET MAN’S’ WAR
… the Battle of France and the last ace from the Battle of Britain. Sunlight grazed his face and the pilot known as the … draughtsman . At the time, things were getting difficult . War loomed and I thought the best thing I could do was to … was not unusual to be sent off to find enemy aircraft and discover, at two o’clock, 300+. They were coming in at us – …
SUMMER SHOW PREVIEWS
… celebration of one of the most important events of World War Two – the invasion of Normandy as part of D-Day. There … on the 101st Airborne, which will allow visitors to discover the specificities of the airborne troops of D-Day … it was like. Well worth looking out for is the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight carrying out a flypast in some of …
Master of Strategy
… ALAN BROOKE PONDERS STRATEGY AT A GLOBE IN HIS BASE AT THE WAR OFFICE IWM TR144 Britain’s pre-eminent wartime chief was a curious character. … dubbed “the fighting Brookes” and later Alan Brooke was to discover that Churchill had served with two of his brothers …
BAND OF VAGABONDS
… the sound of spades turning earth. As this amounted to a war crime, there would be no evidence and no witnesses. … was sparked by Italy’s invasion of Egypt, which threated Britain’s strategic hold in the region. In July 1941, David … lunged across the Rhine on March 25. They were the ones to discover Belsen concentration camp, and they subsequently …
TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE
… of them all. Stewart Binns reveals her little-known war work. CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL, THE WIFE OF BRITISH PRIME … door… just. More than once, she would be embarrassed to discover that Winston had not paid his bills and had to issue … she gave him during the dark days of 1940 and beyond, when Britain was in greatest peril. Significantly, when he …
WEAPONS OF WAR: X-Lighter Motor Landing Craft
… EQUINES TOPFOTO Hell on Cape Helles In a great irony of war, two British developments had the potential to save many … the naval base at Mudros, a journey of about 25 days from Britain’s south ports. The craft were kept busy moving men … [The Turks] did not open fire until our destroyer, to discover what was causing the delay of the lighter, turned on …
VE DAY 75th: Last 100 Days of War in Europe
… on the German heartland from both east and west, the war in Europe was in its final throws. However, no one knew … On January 28, 1807, London’s Pall Mall had been Britain’s first street to be lit by gaslight, but Behrman was … is too literal; it can’t take a joke. In a poll taken to discover the greatest hardship of war, the blackout won hands …
A Rare Individual
By Steve Snelling
… in 1939, Johnny Brunt was destined to become one of Britain’s most formidable soldiers. In the first of a … THAN AT STALINGRAD TOPFOTO In the thick of things World War Two had been raging for nearly two years and, impatient … for the patrol, was unoccupied – Brunt proceeded to discover the Germans’ whereabouts by interrogating the local …
Driven to Duty
By words Richard Gunn pictures Archive
… than her much older predecessor. This was her official war portrait By the time World War Two ended, she had become … from manufacturers and then delivered them throughout Britain to new bases and ports. Jewish ATF volunteers at the … opportunities to meet new people, learn fresh abilities, discover new talents, and feel like they were playing a vital …
A Game of Cat & Morse; Part 2
By James Hoare
… another Buckinghamshire estate became vital in the covert war effort. In part two of his article, James Hoare reveals how the ingenious engineers of … on enemy agencies and new technology to protect Britain’s secrets. On the wall of the officers’ mess at …