The regime of Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad managed to stay in power for five decades by exercising brutally repressive methods inspired in part by Alois Brunner, a notorious Nazi ...
On November 12, 1944, an attack similar to the one conducted on October 29 was launched. Dubbed Operation Catechism, it saw 32 modified Lancasters from the No. 617 and 9 Squadrons RAF, as well as a ...
The major tragedy occurred on the evening of December 2nd when a swift, successful German air raid, took place on the port of Bari during the dusk period, when the harbour lighting was on, and ...