Their target: German reconnaissance flights that were critical for gathering intelligence over the embattled Somme Valley in northern France. As the first light of dawn stretched across the sky ...

The machine ... gun did not save lives in the Great War – quite the reverse. The production and deployment of ever-increasing numbers of machine-guns was the main reason why the German army ...

Sergeant Rudi Gerlath of the German Luftwaffe is shot down over Garmouth and parachutes, unnoticed, to earth. He wanders into the garden of Nicky’s bombed-out house, wondering if he should hand ...