Day by day, the task arms and the price of victory grow greater. The early summer’s burst of optimism seems childish now; with German troops in the Caucasus, and the Afrika Korps poised in Egypt, ...

The sun was at its midday peak as the American freighter Alcoa Puritan, loaded with 9,700 tons of bauxite ore, plodded its way northward in the Gulf of Mexico on its way to Mobile, Alabama. For master ...

Reunion Dinner of the 4 Commando Brigade and 47 & 48 Royal Marines (Ernest Brooks 2nd from left). This story was submitted to the People's War site by the CSV Action Desk at BBC Gloucestershire on ...

Video recording of Jack Ross interviewed by John Gaisford made on 12/3/2005 Edited transcript by J David 23/9/05 I was here until 1942, when I had a message, a policeman knocked at the door, ...