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Jun 4, 2010 · During World War II, signals intelligence was always and increasingly the most valuable of Great Britain's intelligence sources. The Poles first solved the German Enigma cipher machine.
- F. H. Hinsley
- 1990
- The Battle of Britain
- The Unsinkable Ship
- The North African Campaign
- British Intelligence
- The British Empire
- The Royal Navy
Between June and October 1940, the RAF engaged in a deadly battle over the skies of southern Englandwith wave after wave of Luftwaffe bombers and fighter planes. At stake was the supremacy of the air and, in turn, the survival of the United Kingdom. Following the fall of France, the only country still standing in the way of Hitler’s total dominance...
Free from occupying forces, Britain became an unsinkable ship, able to launch constant bombing raids against German industrial, military, and civilian targets. This hampered the Germans’ ability to fight the war effectively and severely lowered enemy morale. As well as being a base for both British raids on the German homeland and its military inte...
Unable to fight in continental Europe, the British instead turned their attention to North Africa, fighting several battles against the Italians and the Germans to drive them from the continent. The battles fought between General Bernard Montgomery and his opposite number, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, culminated in Rommel’s defeat in the Battle of E...
The British knew they hadn’t much hope of taking the fight directly to the Germans at the start of the war, but what they did have was an intelligence network that was second to none. The full weight of British intelligence was thrown into the war effort and produced astonishing results that proved vital. The Special Operations Executive (SOE), for...
With an empire stretching from Canada to Australia, Britain was able to raise a fighting force the Germans and the Japanese could never hope to match. In India alone, Britain raised an army of 1.4 million troops who went on to play vital roles in both the European and Pacific theatres. While many people see the Pacific as primarily a war between Ja...
Of course, it wasn’t just on land that Britain made an invaluable contribution to the war. At sea, the gigantic Royal Navyplayed a pivotal role in defeating the Axis powers from day one of the conflict to the very end of the war. In Europe and the Middle East, Royal Navy blockades confined the Italian and German navies to port due to a chronic shor...
Between March and August of 1939, Winton helped organize eight transports of children from Prague to London. The children he rescued were imperiled by Nazi Germany’s dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Most of them were Jewish. Working from London, Winton coordinated rescue efforts with refugee workers in Prague.
British Empire in World War II. When the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939 at the start of World War II, it controlled to varying degrees numerous crown colonies, protectorates, and India. It also maintained strong political ties to four of the five independent Dominions — Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New ...
During World War Two, the contribution of troops from the British Empire was crucial. The map below gives an idea of the number of soldiers who signed up to fight for Britain from several...
The Battle of Britain began on 10 July 1940. The head of the Luftwaffe was Hermann Goering. Germany codenamed their planned invasion of Britain Operation Sea Lion. Goering planned for British...
The story of Sir Nicholas Winton, the 'British Schindler' who saved 669 children from the Holocaust in World War Two.
