This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most- bloody battles of World War Two but also the most pivotal. Under the codename Operation “Barbarossa,” Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by […]
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The Battle of the Somme | 100 years on
The 1st of July 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the deadliest offensive of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme. 100,000 allied troops were sent over the top in an attempt to break the stalemate that had developed against the German line. British Troops were mown down by machine gun […]