Operation Goodwood was an attempt by the British, Canadian and Polish forces to breakout from around the strategic city of Caen. The attack on July 18th was to be a tightly focused punch by some 750 tanks to the east of Caen, from the narrow base established by the 6th Airborne, over the Orne, across cornfields, over two railway lines and up towards the well defended ridge at Bourguebus. On the 18th July, preceded by a massive bombing and artillery bombardment, three armoured divisions drove hard for the objective. The lead armoured division was 11th Armoured with its 3 Sherman regiments in line astern. Assigned the centre of the offensive, 2nd Fife & Forfars must advance beyond the devastated front line units into the heart of the Germ...
In September 1915, the British and French armies began a combined major offensive on the western fro...
'Market Garden' was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial, operations of the Secon...
D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. From ports and harbours...
Operation Goodwood was an attempt by the British, Canadian and Polish forces to breakout from around...
This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series explores the Allies' struggle to take Ca...
The 1st Polish Armoured Division was first committed to action in Normandy on 8th August, during Ope...
the vast length of the [Nijmegen] railway bridge – some six hundred yards long, which was strewn wit...
The village of Grimbosq is a small and rather unremarkable village sandwiched between a large forest...
taking the Hekkens road on the evening of 9FEB the Seaforths were ordered to hold their position. Th...
Mechanization signaled the end of the cavalry but the renaissance of heavy cavalry doctrine. The tan...
Operation “Switchback” was conceived to capture the Breskens pcoket and liberate the south bank of t...
The Battle of Britain was the biggest and the most important air battle during the Second World War ...
The fall of France in June 1940 transformed Britain's strategic situation. It meant that amphibious ...
During the battles for north-west Europe, reconnaissance forces on both sides had many and varied ro...
Guderian’s XIXth Panzer Corps was to deliver a decisive blow to the Allied strategic plan to defeat ...
In September 1915, the British and French armies began a combined major offensive on the western fro...
'Market Garden' was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial, operations of the Secon...
D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. From ports and harbours...
Operation Goodwood was an attempt by the British, Canadian and Polish forces to breakout from around...
This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series explores the Allies' struggle to take Ca...
The 1st Polish Armoured Division was first committed to action in Normandy on 8th August, during Ope...
the vast length of the [Nijmegen] railway bridge – some six hundred yards long, which was strewn wit...
The village of Grimbosq is a small and rather unremarkable village sandwiched between a large forest...
taking the Hekkens road on the evening of 9FEB the Seaforths were ordered to hold their position. Th...
Mechanization signaled the end of the cavalry but the renaissance of heavy cavalry doctrine. The tan...
Operation “Switchback” was conceived to capture the Breskens pcoket and liberate the south bank of t...
The Battle of Britain was the biggest and the most important air battle during the Second World War ...
The fall of France in June 1940 transformed Britain's strategic situation. It meant that amphibious ...
During the battles for north-west Europe, reconnaissance forces on both sides had many and varied ro...
Guderian’s XIXth Panzer Corps was to deliver a decisive blow to the Allied strategic plan to defeat ...
In September 1915, the British and French armies began a combined major offensive on the western fro...
'Market Garden' was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial, operations of the Secon...
D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. From ports and harbours...