According to Field Marshal Montgomery, rule one on page one of the book of war is ‘Don’t march on Moscow.’ This June sees the 80th anniversary of the day Hitler broke that rule. Codenamed Operation ...

June 22nd marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union -- the biggest military adventure in history, which led directly to the downfall of Adolf ...

Nazi Germany led the largest-ever ground invasion force in an attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 that unleashed a brutal conflict that cost the lives of millions of people. 1 This photo -- of German ...

On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its ...

No Spanish ships or ports were safe when dread pirate Barbarossa, ally of the powerful Ottoman Empire, sailed the high seas. Hayreddin’s brother Oruç was the first to be known as Barbarossa. His ...

Two new books published to mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa offer different but complementary perspectives on the largest invasion in human history, writes Vin Arthey At 3:15 am on ...