History of War

John is a best-selling author, historian and retired RAF Tornado navigator. Over on page 48 he discusses his experience being shot down over Iraq, enduring captivity as a prisoner of war, and his reflections on the war over three decades later. Roger

Assassination attempts on the German dictator were nothing new and there had been numerous other failed plots to dispose of him, such as in 1939 in a beer hall in Munich. A timebomb was planted, and the explosion killed others but not Hitler because

Had the plot succeeded, it’s possible (however remote) that the Germans may have surrendered and struck a deal with the Western Allies. From bitter experience the Germans knew just what kind of adversary the Russians could be, and they knew the terri

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