Michael Carter-SinclairMichael.carter-sinclair@kcl..ac.uk
The most important element, however, was the misinformation provided to the Germans by double agents. Information supplied by a double agent code-named Garbo convinced Hitler that the attack would come from the south. To keep up the pretense and delay the arrival of German reinforcements in ...
The truth, more likely, was that the prime minister and others across the English Channel heard the roar of the Allied heavy artillery, which followed the earth-shattering explosion with a synchronized barrage of 2,000 guns. 'Creeping Barrage' Routs the Germans at Messines Universal Images ...
with an attack on a British light cruiser off the coast of Scotland that killed more than 250 sailors. Seventeen days later,U-9sank three British battle cruisers with an hour, killing nearly 1,500. Despite these strikes, the Germans lost more U-boats than they sank during the first month...
Lenin was in exile in Switzerland for playing a part in some previous anti-czar plots. When he heard of the uprising, Lenin cut a deal with Germany. If the Germans could transport him home, he would get Russia to back out of World War I. The Germans agreed and snuck him back into ...
On the other hand, many among those Germans who were not formal members of the party could fall into two categories: those ballsy enough not to fall for Nazi ideology and propaganda; and those who had applied for membership but had been rejected! Interestingly, the former were equally not ke...
“not a single Field Marshal had ever been taken prisoner”. He, thus, made it clear again that, in the case of the Germans’ defeat in the Stalingrad battle, the military commander was to commit suicide. It was the final straw. There is a legend, according to which, having read the...
Free Essay: The Boy in Striped Pajamas had numerous characters that were dynamic and changed throughout the novel. But the one that changed the most in the...
In June 1944, the allies landed in France on the beaches of Normandy. From there, they pushed ever eastwards as the Russians pushed towards the west, slowly squeezing the life out of the Germans until the final bloody showdown in Berlin and the death of Hitler. ...
But that same year, a curious thing began happening: U-boats were being sunk after surfacing in the dark of night to recharge their batteries. (The charging generators were run by an internal-combustion engine, which required air.) The Germans couldn’t explain it. Did the Allies have a ...