LONDON (Reuters) - "It was one continuous cacophony of noise when those 1,000 guns opened up. We were just so grateful we weren't on the receiving end," 92 year-old British veteran Ron McBride remembers. There aren't that many survivors left from Britain
Read Full Article atHistory Final Review Sheet Places/Events • July 1, 1916 – Battle of the Somme o British launched offensive against Somme River o Also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 14 November 1916 in the Somme dep
Against most predictions and against tough odds, British prime minister David Cameron won the battle of the European budget last week. But he may have condemned himself to defeat in the far more important and long-term campaign to reform and secure Brita
There is no need to exaggerate the danger of the U-boats or to worry our merchant seamen by harping upon it unduly, because the British and American Governments have known for some time past that there were these U-boats about and have given the task of
Feb. 2 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of one of World War II's most decisive and utterly destructive battles, the five-months of slaughter in the Russian city then called Stalingrad. In 2012, this column revisited several major battles of 1942, i
Click here to view the gallery of ten great British battles Now the National Army Museum is asking us to nominate Britain's greatest battle of those fought on land over the past 400 years. And it has fired the opening shot by asking military historians t
History theory the holocaust started began almost as soon as world war 2 ended. some said Hitler are responsible for the holocaust (he is anti semitic) In Hitlers book mien kamf, he blamed jews of germans defeated in the first world war and all the probl
It was enormously important in terms of morale as well ... It was our first victory for some time, and provided a terrific boost back home....