Clash of Warriors

For weeks after the D-Day Iandings, AIlied troops were pinned down in the dense Normandy 'bocage', the small fields, narrow lanes, and high hedgerows where German anti-tank ambushe...

The 1944 Battle of the Bulge, which pitted U.S. Gen. Omar Bradley against German Field Marshall Walter Model, is recalled.

When the Allies captured the airfield at Myitkyina in May 1944 it brought together two determined and ruthless commanders, General Joseph Vinegar Joe Stilwell and Lt. General Masak...

Erwin Rommel made his name as one of the outstanding commanders of World War 2 Ieading the German Afrika Korps in a series of sweeping victories which took his forces almost to the...

Following the Allies success at El Alamein, the war in the desert became the retreat of the Afrika Korps and Italian forces and also the first joint Anglo-American land operation o...

In October 1944, US tropps invaded Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. What followed was the largest clash of naval arms in history: 216 US and 64 Japanese warships in a series of drama...

Operation Citadel, Hitlers attempt to 'pinch out' the Kursk salient, was his last great offensive on the Eastern Front. It became the greatest clash of armour the world had ever se...

The fight between two battle-hardened commanders, US marine Alaxander Vandegrift and Japanese general Haruyoshi Hyakutake, to hold Guadalcanal became a monumental face-off that rag...

When Arthur Harris was appointed commander-in-chief of RAF Bomber Command, he was convinced that a strategic bombing offensive could win the war on the German industrial heartland....

As he was forced to withdraw from the Philippines in the dark days of spring 1942, Dougias MacArthur vowed 'I wiII retum'. Almost three years later he did, at the head of a massive...

In early June 1967 the signs of an imminent Arab assault on Israel finally to eliminate the hated enemy were unmistakeable. But the Israelis did not sit around waiting. In a brilli...

The AIIied invasion of Europe on 6 June 1944 was the greatest all-arms combined operation in military history. Allied Supreme Commander, Dwight D Eisenhower, had an armada ol 6,000...

In late August 1914, at Tannenberg, in today's Poland, took place one of the most momentous battles of World War I between Germany and Russia. The fate of the entire eastern front...

As 1918 dawned, Germany's commander on the Western Front, Erich von Ludendorff, Iaunched a desperate gamble to win the war before the growing flood of American troops being deploye...

Desperate to break the stalemate on the Western Front in 1916, Germany's army chief-of-staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, conceived a diabolical plan — by attacking one of France's most...

After the Allied invasion in September 1943 and Italy's Surrender, General Mark Clark's US Fifth Army pursued the German forces of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring into the Apennine...

By the beginning of December 1941, German troops were within sight of the Kremlin. The Panzers of Fedor von Bock seemed poised to capture the capital ot the Soviet Union and comple...

The German defeat at Stalingrad was a defining moment in Hitler's dream of world domination. For the first time in World War 2, a German Field Marshal, Friedrich Paulus, was forced...

When Saddam Hussein, dictator of lraq, sent his forces to occupy oil-rich Kuwait, he could hardly have anticipated the response. Within days, a massive international force, sanctio...

With Allied Merchant ships transporting vital supplies and It was the longest campaign in World War 2, and the one which came closest to gaining outright victory for Hitler. Had th...

Gen. Edmund “Bull” Allenby faces Gen. Otto Liman von Sanders in the 1918 Battle of Megiddo during World War I.

Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner faces Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

By the beginning of 1968, the war in Vietnam had reached stalemate. The US had deployed half a million men, massive firepower, and every hightech weapon in its armoury, but the Vie...

Few batties have been so decisive or decided so swiftly. In only four minutes the elite of Japan's naval airpower was devastated by a surprise US divebomber attack. Japan's legenda...

In the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany. Much of Europe had been defeated, and the triumphant Luftwaffe under its flamboyant leader Hermann Goering was poise...

At times, warfare comes down to a duel between two great commanders. In the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives the first full-scale American actions on World War I s Western F...