June 13, 1944. A British armored column is crossing the quiet French town of Villers-Bocage, unaware of the storm about to ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

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Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime minister Winston Churchill. It was not—but there is a connection.

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The British FV 214 Conqueror was a post–World War II heavy tank developed in the 1950s to counter the Soviet IS-3 and other heavy armor. Armed with a powerful 120 mm gun, it was designed to provide ...

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence ...