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One of the most underrated British war films is now on BBC iPlayer
This classic espionage thriller, directed by Ronald Neame and produced by André Hakim, delves into the intricacies of Operation Mincemeat - a daring World War II deception strategy that played a ...
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'Operation Mincemeat': A British theatre invasion
What do a homeless corpse, James Bond and the island of Sicily all have in common? As bizarre of a combination as it may ...
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Panzer Campaigns: Sicily '43
A war game based around the invasion of Sicily in 1943. By July 1943, the tides of war had turned on the Germans. Tunsia fell in May leaving no Axis territory in North Africa. On July 5th, they ...
The Bookseller18d
The Sicily Campaign
Billed as the most comprehensive account available of the joint Allied invasion of Sicily, including detail on the important airborne element of the campaign. Caroline Sanderson worked as a ...
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Original Series
Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans tell the story of one of the most dramatic military operations in history. By the time D-Day ...
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Featured in Film
Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...
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A year before D-Day, Allied forces made their first thrust into the 'soft underbelly of Europe' - here's how Operation Husky played out
On April 30, 1943, a fisherman off the coast of Huelva, Spain, recovered the body of Maj. William Martin, a dead British soldier. Spanish authorities quickly buried the body, but his personal ...