History of the Second World War Magazine

Updated 4/4/07

Issue           Subjects

Part 1             Blitzkrieg!

Part 2             Hitler: The New Messiah; The Hunting of the Graf Spee

Part 3             The Germans Strike North

Part 4             Glider Strike on World's Strongest Fort; The Balance of Arms Assessed; Hitler's Troops Crush Norway

Part 5             The Panzers Break Through at Sedan; Invasion of Holland and Belgium

Part 6             Dunkirk

Part 7             The Fall of France

Part 8             Operation Sea Lion: The Plan to Invade Britain

Part 9             The Battle of Britain

Part 10           Italian Fiasco: The Attack on Greece

Part 11           Menace At Sea; Struggle for the Sealanes; The RAF Hits Back; Night Raid

Part 12           Victory in the Desert; Wavell's 30,000 take 130,000 POWs

Part 13           Rommel:  The Desert Fox

Part 14           Hitler's Revenge on Yugoslavia

Part 15           Hitler Drives the Allies Out of Greece

Part 16           The Sinking of the Bismarck

Part 17           Civilians in the Front Line

Part 18           How Crete Was Lost; The Allied View; The German View

Part 19           Desert Tragedy: Frenchman Fights Frenchman in Syria

Part 20           Duels With the Afrika Korps

Part 21           Operation Barbarossa: 'When the attack on Russia starts the world will hold its breath' Hitler

Part 22           Barbarossa! Hitler launches the greatest military invasion in history

Part 23           Russia Blunts the Blitzkrieg; Fatigue? The Red Army? Or Hitler? What stopped the Germans at the gates of Leningrad?                        A Panzer General Reports.

Part 24           Target Rommel; The Commando Raid to Kill the Desert Fox and Why it Failed

Part 25           Pearl Harbor; Was it Really a Surprise?  30 years later - a new view

Part 26           Malaya: A Disgrace to British Arms? New Evidence from Japan on this Major Disaster

Part 27           Battle for Moscow: Both sides of the story; The Siege of Leningrad - 4,000 Russians Starve to Death on Christmas Day

Part 28           Hit and Run: The Big Commando Raids begin

Part 29           The General Who Never Lost a Battle: Marshal Zhukov tells how he planned and led the Moscow counterblow

Part 30           1000 Bomber Raid: Birth of the Allied Blitz

Part 31           This man - and 1,000 like him - took the 15,000 man American force on Corregidor, How?

Part 32           Banzai; Burma: Longest Retreat in British History; An Eyewitness Report

Part 33           Showdown at Midway: Carrier fleets clash in sky battle

Part 34           Tobruk Falls: "Disgrace" says Churchill

Part 35           The Siege of Sebastopol

Part 36           First Alamein: 8th Army Outwits Rommel at the Gateway to Cairo

Part 37           Suicide Invasion: What went wrong at Dieppe?

Part 38           Stalingrad: The most vicious battle of the war

Part 39           Alamein: Montgomery's Desert Triumph, told by his Chief-of-Staff

Part 40           Guadalcanal: Japan's First Land Defeat

Part 41           Operation Torch: Why was Britain's part played down?

Part 42           Life in France: A Frenchman tells what it was like; Vichy Scuttles its Fleet; The Cockleshell Heroes; Clash of Propaganda;

                         Last Convoys to Malta

Part 43           Adolf Hitler, Scrap the Fleet

Part 44           Death of An Army: The Red counterblast at Stalingrad cost the Germans a third of a million men... Inside a leading

                         Russian historian reports

Part 45           The Crime at Katyn Wood: 4,500 Polish prisoners were slaughtered and buried in Katyn Wood, Russia... Who killed them?

                         Now, a Soviet historian presents the Russian view

Part 46           Tunisia, The Noose Tightens; Guadalcanal, Slaughter at Sea

Part 47           Wingate, minus myth

Part 48           Africa, The End

Part 49           Battle for the Sealanes; Last Triumph of the U-Boats; The Phantom War

Part 50           The Greatest Tank Battle in History

Part 51           Italians Quit, and turn on their dictator

Part 52           Allies Invade Italy: "Our Beach-head is secure and we are here to stay"

Part 53           'The Bolshevik Horde': Just another piece of German propaganda?, Four Russian historians tell their side of the story

Part 54           Did the Germans Stop Monty?: or was he over-cautious

Part 55           War at the Top: The Big Three by A.J.P. Taylor; China - the Forgotten Battleground

Part 56           Guadalcanal to Bougainville: The bloody step-by-step jungle battle, by a US Marine General

Part 57           Marines at Tarawa

Part 58           Was Anzio Worth It?

Part 59           Cassino Falls: Behind the Triumph - the war's bloodiest mistake?

Part 60           RAF Raider Destroyed: The Luftwaffe Reports

Part 61           Kohima and Imphal: The Turning point in Burma

Part 62           Pre D-Day, Hitler's Fortress Europe

Part 63           Pre D-Day, The Allied War Machine

Part 64           Pre D-Day, Europe's Secret Armies

Part 65           D-Day

Part 66           Battle of the Hedgrows

Part 67           The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot: The air battle that cost the Japanese 375 aircraft

Part 68           The Bomb Plot

Part 69           The Red Army Bursts Into Poland

Part 70           Allies Smash Two German Armies

Part 71           Prisoner On the Kwai: a first-hand account

Part 72           Paris Freed!

Part 73           Arnhem: The most momentous error of the war?

Part 74           Inside the Camps: The story the Allies refused to believe

Part 75           The incredible career of Richard Sorge - Stalin's man in Tokyo

Part 76           The strange career and spectacular death of the Tirpitz

Part 77           The Soviet View of 'Liberation': This week we tell the other side of the story

Part 78           The Red Army's Drive to the Gates of Berlin

Part 79           Bombing: Did it work? Was it justified?

Part 80           Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble

Part 81           Battle of the Bulge: The Allies Hit Back

Part 82           Iwo Jima: The Japanese view of the bloodiest fight in US Marine History

Part 83           'Whatever the enemy does, he can never reckon on a capitulation.  Never! Never! Never! Hitler

Part 84           Victory in Italy: The last battles; Surrender in Italy; The murder of Mussolini; The top generals

Part 85           Into the Heart of Hitler's Reich

Part 86           Fall of Berlin

Part 87           Hitler Dead - Doenitz Appointed Fuhrer

Part 88           Fire Raids on Japan

Part 89           Cult of the Kamikazes

Part 90           The Race to Rangoon

Part 91           Japan's Last Hope: 28 million volunteers

Part 92           Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Part 93           The War, An Overview

Part 94           Blister gas, Chlorine gas, Blood gas, Nerve gas, Why were they never used?

Part 95           Tanks, Guns, Men

Part 96           Index

Part 97           Post War Years

Part 98           The Perils of Peace

Part 99           Big Four Take Over

Part 100         Facing up to defeat

Part 101         Brave New World?

Part 102         The Propaganda War

Part 103         Hitler's Foreign Legions

Part 104         U-Boat: One of the Deadliest Weapons of the War

Part 105         Dambusters

Part 106         Heraldry of War

Part 107         Waffen-SS

Part 108         Czechoslovakia Fights Back

Part 109         Belsen: A startling analysis by Dr. Russell Barton

Part 110         The Soldier

Part 111         Life at Home

Part 112         The Leaders and their Generals

Part 113         Chiang and his Generals

Part 114         Diplomacy in War

Part 115         Strategy and Tactics

Part 116         Forts

Part 117         Trials at Nuremburg

Part 118         Struggle Over Israel

Part 119         France Retreats From Empire

Part 120         Indonesia

Part 121         Vietnam's Fight for Freedom

Part 122         The Spread of Communism

Part 123         The Years of Reconstruction

Part 124         Artists at War

Part 125         Mao's Victory

Part 126         The Violent Peace

Part 127         History of the Second World War: Chronology 1933 - 1944

Part 128         History of the Second World War: Chronology 1945 - 1949

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