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...

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...

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...

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 A...

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...

Operation Citadel, Hitlers attempt to 'pinch out' the Kursk salient, was his last great offensive on the Eastern Front. It became the greatest clash o...

The fight between two battle-hardened commanders, US marine Alaxander Vandegrift and Japanese general Haruyoshi Hyakutake, to hold Guadalcanal became...

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 th...

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...

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 s...

The AIIied invasion of Europe on 6 June 1944 was the greatest all-arms combined operation in military history. Allied Supreme Commander, Dwight D Eise...

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 fat...

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...

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 a...

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 Alber...

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...

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...

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

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 outri...

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 weap...

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 dive...

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

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 acti...