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The shield wall: Hastings, 14th October 1066
The death of King Edward the Confessor in January 1066 triggered a major succession crisis. With no direct heirs, the English crown went to Earl Harold Godwinson, the king’s brother-in-law. This angered Duke William of Normandy, who claimed that Harold had sworn an oath of loyalty to help him secure the throne. The situation was…
The Grain Elevator: Stalingrad, 18th-22nd September 1942
For chronological order, click here for the previous WW2 post ! By the end of January 1942, German forces had been pushed back from Moscow and suffered around one million casualties. Eager to retake the initiative, Hitler planned a summer offensive (Operation Blau) targeting oilfields in the southern Caucasus: a pressure point that could re-supply…
Last stand at Guadalcanal, 21st August 1942
For chronological order, click here for the previous WW2 post! Despite severe losses at the Coral Sea and Midway, Japan continued to expand into the South Pacific in order to consolidate its holdings and push further into the region. From early-July 1942, Japanese forces landed on Guadalcanal – a remote island in the southern Solomons…
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