David Moore — A Child’s View of WW2 (1939-1945) I was five when my parents called us children in to the best room of the house to hear the declaration of war on the big wireless set. It was Sunday ...

On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and ...

Declaration of War — Dunkirk - Battle of Britain - Bombs on Clydeside — Evacuation - Air Training Corps — Death in the Family — Volunteer for RAF. (cont’d. Part 2) On 9th. May 1939 I celebrated my ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

Alanbrooke, the British imperial chief of staff during World War II, permitted a popular historian to publish excerpts from his wartime diaries in the 1950s. Those two volumes -- The Turn of the Tide ...

Staten Island, NY, August 8th, 2006 - Matrix Games ( www.matrixgames.com) and PlayTek ( www.playtek.pl) are pleased to announce that Blitzkrieg War in Europe 1939 -1945 is now available through the ...

As young as he was, John Bush Jones remembers World War II on the home front. He was 5 at war’s end but has vivid memories of meals under rationing, bombers dropping war-bond leaflets over his Chicago ...

Considering the number of shelves laden with books on the Soviet Union in World War II, it may be surprising that few convey the war as experienced by the foot soldiers, tank operators, and pilots who ...