Allied plans to take Trondheim in Norway to allow for larger reinforcements and even bigger aerial support to come in are disbanded as the troops approaching Trondheim are pulled back from Norway.

The German Invasion of Norway is still very much in full swing. The German Wehrmacht is moving north from Oslo, where a Norwegian force is trying to halt them in anticipation of Allied reinforcements.

John Goldsmith overcame a tumultuous childhood and adolescence, first as a refugee from Nazi Germany and later as an interned “enemy alien,” to become an early pioneer in kidney dialysis, setting up ...

In attacking Lenin, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, mouthpiece of the Frankfurt stock exchange, has reached deep into the ...

In April of 1940, Britain is on a knife edge… Neville Chamberlain’s government is teetering, Paris is in increasing danger of ...

On September 27, 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, taking control of nearly two-thirds of the country.

Relatives of the man in charge of protecting south-east England during the Battle of Britain have led a memorial service to mark its 85th anniversary. Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park took charge of ...

Before we jump into the September reader mailbag, we have a few loose ends to tie up from a couple of recent columns. First: Ray Shrader of northern Roanoke County notified me last week that tree ...

It’s been 85 years since a day of unimaginable tragedy struck Southampton. On September 11, 1940, German bombers cast a shadow over the town with a grim mission: to cripple Britain's wartime aircraft ...

The real-life British secret agency behind Operation Postmaster helped launch James Bond and end World War II. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was instrumental in the formation of the Special ...

We step back to August 1940. Britain and its allies had been at war with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany for nearly a year and nobody knew how World War II would play out. After claiming millions of lives ...