At the beginning of 1918, the war was not going well for the Entente allies, especially on the Western front. In March, three years of what had effectively become siege warfare conducted along a line of trenches was "unlocked" by the German spring offensive. Suddenly it was a war of movement again for ...
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain's ...
