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Fifty years ago, the crash of the U.S. Navy’s most advanced fighter in British waters led to a desperate scramble to recover the wreck and safeguard its classified technology from the Russians  By Steven Taylor... The post The Hunt for Tomcat AB221 — Inside the U.S. Navy’s Race to Find... Read more »

“Tactically, the British had been defeated. Strategically, however, the story was very different.” By Hamish de Bretton-Gordon IN WAR, there are battles that are remembered because they were victories, and there are battles remembered because... The post Arras 1940 — Inside the doomed British tank attack that saved the Allied... Read more »

“In total, 1,297 French sailors were killed in the attacks – men who, only days earlier, had stood as Britain’s allies.” By Edward Abel Smith THE amber dawn broke fiercely over the bay of Mers... The post ‘A Most Hateful Decision’ — Inside the Britain’s Destruction of the French Fleet... Read more »

 “The goal was to land nearly a quarter of a million German soldiers along the British coast within the first two weeks of the assault.” By Robert Schreiner MOST students of Second World War history... The post Operation Sea Lion — Inside the German Invasion Plan for Great Britain appeared... Read more »