THE WORLD IN FLAMES 1940-1945 With the fall of France in June 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The British army was in a state of total disarray. It was never very large, and it had lost almost all its equipment during the evacuation from Dunkirk. The imminent threat of invasion loomed over […]
French Soldiers on Parade, 1939 Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, and, true to their treaty obligations, Britain and France declared war on Germany. However, neither nation did much to help their Polish ally. With the Germany army heavily engaged in Poland, the French could have launched an attack from the east. Instead, the […]
THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN 1914 On the afternoon of August 3, 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declared war on France and began implementing a long-held strategy conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen. The objective was to achieve the total defeat of France in six […]
Japan attacked China in 1937, and its military forces were guilty of increasingly hideous brutality, culminating in the “Nanking Massacre” of December 1937. Even German observers, no strangers to evil, were shocked as Japanese soldiers committed countless brutal rapes, bayonetted or decapitated up to 40 thousand Chinese prisioners or war, and engaged in other senseless […]
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