After the German surrender of Paris on the 25th August 1944, there was another kind of invasion of France; on this occasion by the vengeful and humiliated, ill-disciplined forces led by Charles De Gaulle. As soon as the American forces had […]
On the 30th January 1945, with the murderous, rampaging Red Army bearing down on them, the German civilians of East Prussia, desperate to escape, fled to the Baltic ports hoping to be evacuated by sea. Many of those caught in the […]
Vice President Henry Wallace was a plain-speaking farmer’s son from Iowa . . . and he fully expected to be re-nominated for Vice President at the Convention. The MI-6 agent and children’s author Roald Dahl, became a close ‘friend’ of […]
On the night of 12/13th February 1945, over 1000 allied bombers attacked a non-military, civilian target in Germany, the town of Dresden. Dresden was (and is still) famous for its china pottery industry and at that time towards the end of […]
Sunday, 7th December 1941 – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii “December 7th [the attack on Pearl Harbor] was… far from the shock it proved to the country in general. We had expected something of the sort for a long time.” Eleanor Roosevelt, NY […]
In May 1943, the ‘Dambusters Raid,’ was one of the most blatant examples of wartime spin and propaganda. RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his pilots of 617 Squadron were carefully selected to carry out a ‘daring and innovative’ bombing […]
The Nazi financier-cum-US Secretary of Defence, James Forrestal had close ties with the Harriman family and had long been a partner and president of Dillon, Reed and Company, both leading financiers of the Third Reich. In 1944 when, as Secretary of […]
We have been conditioned over the years to believe that during the Second World War the Germans and Japanese were the only ones capable of atrocities whilst ‘our boys’ were good, moral upstanding people who would never dream in a […]
There are some very dirty secrets that may explain the otherwise inexplicable rise to power of those who would otherwise remain obscure. A case in point, is William Jefferson Clinton. Seldom mentioned, yet an indisputable fact is that the Rockefellers […]
The McCarthy ‘witch-hunt’ for the so-called ‘Reds under the beds’ during the Cold War was generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot on US history, but the release of classified documents revealed that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about […]
