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Eighty years ago Bert Harris diversifies into propaganda

Eighty years ago the Vichy authorities do their bit for the Final Solution

Eighty years ago Allied sailors pay the price of supplying Stalin

Eighty years ago a Chamberlainite hardliner sabotages his own motion of censure on Churchill

Eighty years ago the swansong of the Thousand Bomber Raid

Eighty years ago the fall of Tobruk brings Churchill humiliation and the promise of better tanks

Eighty years ago a German reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich gives the world a shorthand for Nazi evil

Eighty years ago the US Navy inflicts a crippling defeat on the Japanese fleet six months after Pearl Harbour

Eighty years ago the RAF's cherished project of winning the war by bombing comes of age

Eighty years ago a Free French brigade frustrates Rommel's attack

Eighty years ago, before the Wagatha sting there were the code-breakers of OP-20-G