The Maharaja of Jodhpur called on his subjects to do their bit and stop the Nazis.

Under a moonlit sky in October 1942, Allied and Axis forces met in battle on the sands of the Egyptian desert.

A mild-mannered clerk in the British Embassy’s passport office in Berlin, just before the outbreak of war in 1939, was not all he seemed to be.

Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens took his wartime protest straight to the top.

On October 28th, 1940, the Kingdom of Greece surprised everyone by refusing to become part of the German war machine.

The only truly global conflict in history began when German troops crossed into Poland in September 1939.