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Category: World War II
On 14 November 1940 German bombers pulverized the city of Coventry; the verb ‘Koventrieren’ comes to mean ‘devastate’ or ‘reduce to rubble’. This was one of the worst nights in... Read More
The Japanese aerial attack on US shipping at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, was launched at 7.55am on Sunday 7 December. Devastatingly efficient, and apparently unexpected, it was... Read More
One of Hitler’s strategic goals under Operation Barbarossa was Leningrad, the symbolic capital of the Russian Revolution. As Army Group North (comprising 18th Army, 4th Panzer Army and 16th Army)... Read More