Kriege & Feldzüge

Proekt "Istoriya za chas" posvyashchen samym yarkim stranicam istorii chelovechestva i naibolee

This is the remarkable story of the American First World War serviceman Arthur Clifford Kimber.

This is the story of 61-year-old Mildred Aldrich and her experiences of the Great War. She retired

On 22 January 1879 a powerful British column invading Zululand was decisively defeated beneath a

Many thousands of different types of vehicles were used by the armies during the Second World War

In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in

When first published in 2006, Rats Alley was a ground-breaking piece of research, the first-ever

How much can you really find out about the Leaders and Commanders of the First World War in five

On 11 May 1944, just four weeks before D-Day, sixty-seven American heavy bombers dropped 168 tons

After the First World War broke out, Holland, and the port city of Rotterdam in particular, became

Pauline Gower was the leader of the Spitfire women during the Second World War. After gaining her

Long-awaited, the Normandy landings were the largest amphibious operation in history. Success was

Lord Cardigan's cavalry charge on 25 October 1854 at the battle of Balaclava 'into the valley of

In 1940 the Nazis hoped to cripple the British war effort by blockading Swedish cargo ships

Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's Deputy Führer until, in 1941, he flew to Scotland, ostensibly to

German Infantry Regiment 66 fought in most of the great battles on the Western Front in the First

What would you do if you were struck by an enemy bullet in wartime, then realised you were still

In 1854 Britain and France were at war to save 'poor little Turkey', the crumbling Ottoman Empire,

The First World War was a human catastrophe but it also saw a dynamic development of new weapons

D-Day was unprecedented. An invasion of this scale and magnitude had never been carried out before.

As the First World War roared into its second year, 17-year-old Lawrence Ellis marched into his

Bannockburn 1314 is the most celebrated battle between Scotland and England. A decisive victory for

An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too – yet have you ever wondered how

In the autumn of 1942, British Special Operations Executive agent Ronald Sydney Seth was parachuted

Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today.

During the Second World War, the only way Winston Churchill and his American counterpart Franklin

Between December 1941 and July 1945 the Allied Heads of State met nine times to decide the ongoing

They were Britain's Second World War 'Band of Brothers', a secret army of fifty handpicked,

The Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in

Rumours of buried Spitfires from the Second World War have spread around the world for seventy-five

Stalin is quoted as saying 'One man's death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic'. This

During the First World War many sportsmen exchanged their sports field for the battlefield,

How much can you really find out about the War in the Air during the First World War in five

They were told to hold the fort. They did far more than that. When the Second World War broke out,

How much can you really find out about the War at Sea during the First World War in five minutes?

The Second World War (1939–45) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour

Frank and Percy Talley of the 1st City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) were destined to leave

Johnny Henderson spent four years during the Second World War as aide-de-camp to one of Britain's

Summer 1940. In the desperate fight against Nazi Germany, nothing is considered too outlandish, so

The events which unfolded south of Brussels on 18 June 1815 conferred instant immortality on those

'Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.' – Joseph Goebbels, Reich

When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber – but

In the nine years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan has rarely been out

Syndrome K is the story of how 80 per cent of Italy's Jews escaped the Holocaust, with the help of

The mettle of the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment was tested to the maximum in action in

Maurice 'Moggy' Mayne was a cricket-loving air gunner in the Second World War, with a pretty

How much can you really find out about the Weapons of the First World War in five minutes? This

This is the story of the first Blitz and the first Battle of Britain, featuring a full account of

In 1917, David Lloyd George declared that airmen were 'the cavalry of the clouds … the knighthood

When Germany occupied the originally 'demilitarised' Channel Islands in 1940, Hitler ordered the