OVERLORD'S BLOG

The middle of 1943 was a confusing time for the Italians. First came the fall of their dictator Mussolini. That was followed by an outwardly...

The war was coming to an end, France was nearly defeated, and soon the last battle would take place at Epinal. Over the preceding month the ...

Just after the Second World War the west was facing a problem, it's the same problem that tank designers face today. Its gotten to the p...

At the end of the war in Europe you had a devastated countryside littered with the debris of war which took some time to clear up. For an ex...

I tend to write these articles a week in advance, and as it's now currently Canada Day, I figured I should finally do an article on a Ca...

The commander of the S-35 tank, sits in his turret, peering out from his cupola, across the Seine River at Melun. His tank sits on a side s...

After the closure of the Falaise Pocket the Germans began to fall back from the Allies, and the pursuit across France began. The Germans did...

During the run up to World War Two the Norwegian Army was woefully under equipped. This stemmed from pacifism and neutrality from competing ...

There are any number of battles in military history which boil down to "how did you mess that one up?". Where one side has all the...

Disclaimer: This one is written from mostly French sources, and so was put together using Google Translate, so it might have some errors cre...