Witness a complete WWII strategic bombing mission over Germany, from the initial briefing to the perilous return, in this ...

On April 18, 1945, with American troops outside the defenceless German town of Ansbach, a 19-year-old theology student tried to force the town’s surrender by severing the phone lines between the ...

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Elizabeth Perez of Stockport Libraries on behalf of Arthur Berry and has been added to the site with his permission. He fully understands the ...

This huge and splendid volume tells the grim tale of the final collapse of the Third Reich. It does so from the viewpoints of the upper millstone (the Western Allies), the lower millstone (the ...

Authorities in Cologne detonated a 1-ton US bomb from World War II after only defusing one of its two fuses. The city said it was the most complex bomb disposal ...