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17/06/201716/06/2017 HistorianLeave a Comment

Britain’s Front Line Women in WW2

During the Second World War thousands of women from Britain and the Commonwealth served in uniform or in some direct capacity to assist with the war effort. None were fighters, but they were on the front line as WW2 saw the Home Front become as deadly as the battlefield. The images here featured in an […]

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01/05/201730/04/2017 HistorianLeave a Comment

Welcome to the World at War

Growing up in the 1970s the Second World War was ever present. Even though it had ended nearly 30 years ago, it touched almost every facet of my childhood. Comics like Battle and Victor carried story after story of the war, the few television channels we had then were filled with films about WW2, my […]

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The Second World War in colour | Daily Mail Online

  Colour photographs in a new book from the Imperial War Museums vividly bring to life moments from WW2 including troops in training and Winston Churchill and his chiefs of staff. Source: The Second World War in colour | Daily Mail Online  

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23/03/201723/03/2017 HistorianLeave a Comment

Rare Photographs of Omaha Beach, Normandy, in the 1950s

Omaha Beach was one of five Normandy beaches where Allied troops landed on D-Day, 6th June 1944. It was also the deadliest with more than 2,000 American troops killed in action here with many thousands more wounded: and as such, it became known as ‘Bloody Omaha’. In fact, more Allied soldiers died on Omaha Beach […]

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10/03/201715/03/2017 HistorianLeave a Comment

The Forgotten Bloody Battle for Nuremberg 1945

In April 1945 the end of the war was only weeks away but for the Allied troops in Germany, there was no obvious end in sight. In the four weeks since the crossing of the Rhine, Lieutenant General Alexander Patch’s US Seventh Army had pushed deep into southern Germany, but not without opposition. Now the […]

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