In 1944 though, it was time to use it for attack. Britain and its Second World War allies had been planning the biggest, most audacious air and seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. Since 1940 most ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter ...

Europe Lost the War Seventy-one years ago, the British, Canadians, and Americans landed on the Normandy beaches to open a second ... World War I-style bloodbath until March 1945. The stalled ...

The allies repeatedly urged the Americans to ... de Gaulle—a career military man who had led the Free French during the second world war—became an early critic of the deepening American ...

American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced ... of equipment in any theatre of the world war.” Two years earlier, America’s military preparedness ...

is joined by three historians to analyse the Allies' resurgence in 1944 from their nadir in 1940/41. Charles Wheeler presents five personal interpretations of what the end of the second world war ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...