Invasion: Preview and Prevention The last time that an enemy (William the Conqueror) successfully invaded Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a ...

They were given in a wartime speech (now known as “The Few”) in the British House of Commons 85 years ago on Aug. 20, 1940.

On a recent autumn day, I found myself wandering through beautiful fields in rural Norfolk. I was being led by Steve Smith, a ...

As Germany prepared for the imminent invasion of Great Britain in 1940, the British military summoned several intellectuals to come up with an effective way of pushing back the Germans and preventing ...

It was 9 in the evening, but in these northern latitudes the sun was still above the horizon. The sea thundered against the great cliffs of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands; in lonely ...

The Lightning War was one of the most extraordinary events of the Second World War. Now, expertly restored footage from around the world shows the story in a new light. In 1940, France has fallen and ...

"Operation Mincemeat," now streaming on Netflix, is an excellent movie about the British intelligence operation that convinced Germany that the Allies planned to invade Greece instead of Sicily in the ...