Inside our new book – D-Day: British & Canadian sectors, you’ll find an army list for the soldiers of the Canadian army! If you were to ask a Canadian, “Do you have to go to war because England does?” he’d answer at once, “Oh no.” If you then said, “Would you go to war if…
In 1943 a new division of the SS was raised, primarily recruiting young men from the ages of 17–18. The Hitler Youth movement had been a way of brainwashing the youth of the Reich and indoctrinating them in Nazi ideals long before the outbreak of the Second World War. By 1943 the boys who had…
The fall of France and the subsequent evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk was one of the lowest points in the entire war for Britain. With the battered remnants of the British Army now focused on bolstering their ranks and reorganizing their forces and tactics to face a modern and powerful enemy, Prime…
Tom Mecredy
Dan Hewitson