When WW2 began, the Western Front initially saw little ground combat. But there was plenty of action in the air. On 08 September 1939, six H 75 Hawks of the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) were on ...

At the end of 1939, the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. They are closely followed by SS task forces in order to murder the Polish ...

In 1938 long before he had written "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty four," George Orwell published an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War an account which was universally as ...

A memorial honouring volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War would help bring a city and Spain together, a campaigner has said. About 20 people from Roker, Millfield ...

The British government did not want the Spanish Civil War to escalate into a Europe-wide conflict and so signed up to the Non-Intervention Committee. But for some in the British political ...