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El Alamein to Stalingrad July – September 1942 Hitler’s “Desert Fox”, Rommel pushed forward at El Alamein, but with the arrival of the maverick British General, Bernard Montgomery, to take charge of the Eighth Army in North Africa, the wind of change was about to blow. Meanwhile on the Russian Front Hitler’s troops advanced their Stalingrad campaign, with the Fuhrer boasting that this key city would soon be his.

Do you want to learn more about Charlie Chaplin, but don’t have time to listen to huge, long biographies? Then let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of his life. Charlie Chaplin’s legacy lives on forever in the films that have been left behind, bringing the gift of laughter to viewers of every generation, past, present, and future.

When it comes to ancient history, there are some names that will never be forgotten, and Alexander the Great is, without doubt, a perfect example of this timeless phenomenon. But beyond his rather illustrious title, few people could tell you very much more about Alexander, except, perhaps, that he was rather partial to conquering, had an amazing horse, and died very young.

Step back in time to the days that forged our modern age, when every man, woman and child in the free world were prepared to sacrifice all for the cause, and discover for yourself Why Hitler Lost the War.

The Tide Begins to Turn October – December 1942 After so many years of German supremacy, as 1942 drew to a close, the Allies were really beginning to make headway. The British made a crucial breakthrough in North Africa, and the Americans pushed the Japanese out of Burma and New Guinea, while in Russia the Germans found themselves surrounded, as the winter snow set in over Stalingrad.

Russian Roulette July – September 1941 If Hitler had expected a decisive victory in Russia, at speed, he was thwarted at every turn and while the Luftwaffe bombed Moscow and the Siege of Leningrad began, the Soviet Red Army refused to capitulate as they watched and waited for the winter snows. Trouble was also brewing in the Pacific as America took diplomatic action against the Japanese.

Battle Lines Drawn January – March 1940 As the New Year dawned and the people of Britain faced the introduction of rationing, all eyes turned northwards to Scandinavia, where Adolf Hitler was preparing for full-scale invasion. U-Boat attacks increased and at Scapa Flow a German Air Raid claimed the first British casualties.

The Fall of Singapore January – March 1942 With Britain no longer facing Hitler alone, the first GIs arrived in the UK, while the Japanese took the advantage afforded them by their surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. As Singapore fell, the Allies looked on in horror as Japan also had control of Java, Burma and New Guinea, as they edged ever closer towards Australia.

Battle of Midway and Beyond April – June 1942 It was time for the American Navy to get back on course after Pearl Harbour, and in the four-day Battle for the Coral Sea, they claimed victory over the Japanese, before defeating them again in the decisive Battle of Midway. Elsewhere the Luftwaffe went back to targeting more British cities in the Baedeker Raids.

Fighting Further Afield October – December 1940 Worldwide, the conflict continued to escalate as Japan made their presence felt as signatories of the Tripartite Pact, giving Hitler’s Axis of Evil more power than ever. Britain stood alone as the nightly bombing raids of the Blitz devastated major cities, while overseas British troops joined the Allied campaign for supremacy in North Africa.

It all began with the shooting of a drug dealer – a kid – a Mafia kid – the son of the Los Angeles godfather. The contract was placed, and America’s top assassin was employed to kill the cop responsible. Strange events were happening in the one-horse Tennessee township where he was now an anonymous deputy sheriff. A government sanctioned experiment to create the perfect bioweapon had gone terribly wrong, releasing a genetically engineered hornet onto an unsuspecting public. Millions of years of evolution had been compressed into laboratory test tube months. The aerial carnivore ...

THE SMILING PILL The trail of dead bodies begins in Hong Kong and moves to London. Guy Ashton is a dead man walking; no one kills a Chinese Triad Master and lives. His lifeline becomes the CIA, where he is trained to kill by the beautiful but deadly Jinlin. All action moves to Thailand in the quest for the Smiling Pill, a drug so deadly that whole nations will fall under the control of whoever acquires it. THE MISSION-: Find the drug formula and eliminate the creator. There is a traitor among them who wants the drug for themselves. As the body count continues to mount, Guy is forced into a ...

Susan Clark has become a Bride for Allah, trapped as an Islamic sex slave in a Middle Eastern hell hole. Back in England, her genius school professor has progressed a little too far in his quest for Artificial intelligence and created a Super-Computer with powers as yet unimaginable. An equally brilliant Islamic scholar has been radicalized and has cloned the professor’s computer. Two individual computers of infinite power in the wrong hands pose a threat to all humanity. A superb blend of reality and probability, that conflicts the rigidly held beliefs of the Medieval Islamic world with ...

New Challenges October – December 1943 While Hitler faced frustrations on all fronts, and the Japanese were kept at bay by the Americans, despite heavy US casualties, the Allied leaders faced a new challenge. Although Churchill and Roosevelt had always been comfortable working together, the Russian leader Joseph Stalin had in the past been regarded more as a foe than a friend. With the invasion of France imminent, plans made at the Teheran Conference were a minefield of diplomatic negotiations.

On December 7th 1941 as World War II raged, the focus of attention was snatched from the battlefields of Europe and diverted to the smoke and flames rising from the American Naval Base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor. The Empire of the Rising Sun had finally struck, piercing the heart of the US navy in a bid to ensure that their plans for an Asian Empire, every bit as ambitious as Adolf Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich, were not threatened. But as the injured were rushed to safety and America reeled from the shock of the Japanese attack, those battling against Hitler, most notably Winston Churchill ...

“It is a far, far better thing that I do now, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” Dicken's ending to "A Tale of Two Cities" resonates for all readers of this master author and in this journal, you can follow in the footsteps of his life and works. Visit the locations that inspired his great classics and appreciate the contribution that Dickens not only made to literary history, but social matter as well.

On Land, in the Air and all at Sea January – March 1941 The Luftwaffe continued its attempts to bomb Britain into submission, while the German Afrika Korps strengthened its position as Rommel, Hitler’s “Desert Fox”, took charge. At sea the naval forces battle each other and the elements, as the Japanese embark upon a spy mission to gather information about the American Fleet at Pearl Harbour.

Islamic dominance and control of the Western World is imminent. Terrorism has cowed the native populations into abject submission. A suicide bomber kills a child – the child of the most influential man in the British military. Revenge can lead to powerful and uncontrollable emotions. The military takeover of Britain begins. Full scale civil war surfaces. The watching Western World follows Britain’s lead. Tensions escalate into action between the Islamic World and the Western World. The world’s nuclear powers become involved as the domino theory gathers momentum. Orwell’s 1984 morphs...

When it comes to 20th Century history, there are few names as well known as that of Adolf Hitler, Germany’s leader building up to, and during World War II. However, unlike so many of history’s heroes, Adolf Hitler has gone down in the record books for all the wrong reasons. The atrocities committed in his name resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent people, and images of emaciated figures fighting for survival in concentration camps are synonymous with the reign of terror that Hitler dictated, leaving mankind struggling to make sense of how such a situation could have arisen. ...

There is no one, the whole world over, who doesn’t enjoy a good story, and many of our best-loved traditional tales have been passed down through countless generations to the present day. This is especially true of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, including such classics as “The Elves and the Shoemaker”, “Cinderella”, “Hansel and Gretel” and “Snow White”. But who were these famous brothers, and how did two studious young men who were destined to be Lawyers become perhaps the Greatest Storytellers the world has ever known? All these questions and many more will be ...