The 115m-long Fletcher-class destroyer sank in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944. Johnston led an attack
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David Porter on military history’s doomed inventions
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Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict
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Operation Gunnerside, as it was known, the destruction of the heavy water plant in Vemork, Norway, is just one of countless covert
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The find was made by the World of Books Group, the largest retailer of used books in the UK, who subsequently launched
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Although the title says ‘written at the time’, this is not a collection of personal memoirs or diaries. Nor is it the
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It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas
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Driven by desperation in the waning months of the Second World War – and motivated by a martial code, bushido, that glorified
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During the Second World War, Duxford was both an RAF and a United States Army Air Force station, playing an important role
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Yet, from the outset, this is a history with a difference. Set in the aftermath of D-Day, it concerns SABU-70, a 12-man
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