In July 1944 the Soviets launched their largest offensive on the Eastern Front to date, crushing an entire German Army Group. The Soviet armies advanced to the old German border in the northern part of the front. They then attacked the Germans in the area of Memel, gaining ground. This success
Force 136 was a unit of the Special Operations Executive. special operations”) formed by the British during the Second World War, to supervise the maquis in the territories of Asia occupied by the Japanese and to carry out subversive actions there. It was made up of British soldiers or other allied
When we talk about European battles of the Second World War we basically imagine Germans or Italians fighting against the British, Americans or Russians and we can extend it to the French, Dutch, Balkans or Scandinavians. But what never crosses our minds is the Wehrmacht fighting soldiers from Luxem
Childhood Henri Alban Fournier was born on October 3, 1886 in La Chapelle dAngillon, in Sologne, in central France. He has a sister, Isabelle, three years his junior. It is to her that his only novel will be dedicated. He grew up with parents who were teachers and studied in their boarding school u