From the perspective of history, there is a danger that Hitler is seen as an inevitability. Far more interesting to focus on the Nazi excesses once they were in power (more lurid), the Second World War they directly caused (more exciting) and their dramatic downfall (more… dramatic) than to ask how they rose in the
HMS Trooper was born into the heart of conflict. Laid down in 1940 and launched in 1942, she was thrown into the heart of the Second World War and the Battle for the Mediterranean. Her career was a short lived but eventful. In little over a year she sank an enemy submarine, the Italian Pietro
World War Two was the driving force for military innovation in the 20th century. The Cold War and its hot counterparts in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan may have had their own moments but nothing compares to the wild experimentation of WW2, particularly from the Axis powers. World War Two was also special for another reason,