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Advanced Squad Leader Modules
Modules for the game Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) contains all the equipment needed to actually play the game.
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Agostino Rocca
Agostino Rocca (1895 – 17 February 1978) was an Italian businessman.
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Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army.
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Alfred Roberts
Alfred Roberts (18 April 1892 – 10 February 1970), known as Alderman Roberts, was an English grocer, local preacher, and politician.
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All-India Muslim League
The All-India Muslim League (popularised as Muslim League) was a political party established during the early years of the 20th century in the British Indian Empire.
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Andrée Borrel
Andrée Raymonde Borrel (18 November 1919 – 6 July 1944) was a French heroine of World War II who served in the French Resistance and Britain's Special Operations Executive.
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Auxiliary Units
The Auxiliary Units or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret units created by the United Kingdom government during the Second World War, with the aim using irregular warfare to help combat any invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany, which the Germans codenamed Operation Sea Lion.
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Baedeker Blitz
The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids were a series of attacks by the Luftwaffe on English cities during the Second World War.
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Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk (Dunkerque), France, during the Second World War.
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Battle of the Mediterranean
The Battle of the Mediterranean was the name given to the naval campaign fought in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II, from 10 June 1940 to 2 May 1945.
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Bernard Quatermass
Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional scientist, originally created by the writer Nigel Kneale for BBC Television.
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Big Wing
The Big Wing, also known as a Balbo, was an air fighting tactic proposed during the Battle of Britain by 12 Group commander Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Acting Squadron Leader Douglas Bader.
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British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War
British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
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British Empire in World War II
When the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany at the outset of World War II it controlled to varying degrees numerous crown colonies, protectorates and the Indian Empire.
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British Guiana during World War II
The history of British Guiana during World War II begins in 1939, following the outbreak of war in Europe and the United Kingdom's declaration of war on Nazi Germany.
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Chain Home
Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal Early Warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft.
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Churchill war ministry
The Churchill war ministry was a Conservative-led coalition government in the United Kingdom that lasted for most of the Second World War.
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Colchester
Colchester is an historic market town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in the county of Essex.
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D-Day Dodgers
The D-Day Dodgers is a term for those Allied servicemen who fought in Italy during the Second World War, which also inspired a popular wartime soldier's song (Roud Folk Song Index no. 10499).
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Demobilisation of the British Armed Forces after the Second World War
At the end of the Second World War, there were approximately five million servicemen and servicewomen in the British Armed Forces.
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Denis Thatcher
Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, (10 May 1915 – 26 June 2003) was a British businessman and the husband of Margaret Thatcher, who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Diana Rowden
Diana Hope Rowden (31 January 1915 – 6 July 1944) was a British heroine of World War II who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Special Operations Executive.
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Dummy tank
A dummy tank, usually inflatable or wooden, is a type of decoy that either is intended to be mistaken by an enemy for a real tank or used for training purposes.
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Duration of English, British and United Kingdom Parliaments from 1660
This is a list of the Parliaments of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and of England from 1660 to the present day, with the duration of each Parliament.
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Eighth Army (United Kingdom)
The Eighth Army was a field army formation of the British Army during the Second World War, fighting in the North African and Italian campaigns.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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German bombing of Rotterdam
The German bombing of Rotterdam, also known as the Rotterdam Blitz, was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II.
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GHQ Line
The GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion.
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History of the British Army
The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and world wars.
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History of the British Isles
The history of the British Isles has witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Ireland, the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the Bailiwick of Jersey and the smaller adjacent islands, which together make up the British Isles.
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History of the Scottish National Party
In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) is a centre left, social democratic political party which campaigns for Scottish independence.
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Home front during World War II
The home front covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war.
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Home Guard (United Kingdom)
The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.
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Index of World War II articles (M)
# M-1941 Field Jacket.
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Interwar Britain
Interwar Britain (1919–1939) was a period of peace and relative economic stagnation.
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Irish neutrality during World War II
The policy of Irish neutrality during World War II was adopted by the Oireachtas at the instigation of the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera upon the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
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Józef Beck
Józef Beck (4 October 1894 – 5 June 1944) was a Polish statesman who served the Second Republic of Poland as a diplomat and military officer, and was a close associate of Józef Piłsudski.
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List of British divisions in World War II
This page is a list of British Army divisions that existed in World War II.
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List of Prime Ministers of Luxembourg
The Prime Minister of Luxembourg is the head of government in Luxembourg.
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London Southend Airport
London Southend Airport is an international airport in the district of Rochford within Essex, England, approximately from the centre of London.
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Maria Limanskaya
Maria Limanskaya (also mistakenly referred to as Anna Pavlova) was a female soldier of the Red Army for three years during World War II.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Mediterranean Theater of Operations
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (MTOUSA), originally called the North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA), was the American term for the theater of operations covering North Africa and Italy during World War II.
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Military history of Canada during World War II
The military history of Canada during the Second World War begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.
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Military history of the United Kingdom
The military history of the United Kingdom covers the period from the creation of the united Kingdom of Great Britain, with the political union of England and Scotland in 1707, to the present day.
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Modern history
Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the linear, global, historiographical approach to the time frame after post-classical history.
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My Opposition
My Opposition (Mein Widerstand) is a diary secretly written by the German social democrat Friedrich Kellner (1885–1970) during World War II to describe life under Nazi Germany and to expose the propaganda and the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship.
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Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner, (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English violinist who became "one of the world's greatest conductors".
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Noor Inayat Khan
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), aka Nora Inayat-Khan, was a British heroine of World War II renowned for her service in the Special Operations Executive.
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Offensive (military)
An offensive is a military operation that seeks through aggressive projection of armed force to occupy territory, gain an objective or achieve some larger strategic, operational, or tactical goal.
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Outline of the United Kingdom
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; a sovereign state in Europe, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK), or Britain.
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Outline of World War II
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War II: World War II, or the Second World War – global military conflict from 1939 to 1945, which was fought between the Allied powers of the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, with their respective allies.
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Pakistan
Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.
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Pakistan Movement
The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan (تحریک پاکستان –) was a religious political movement in the 1940s that aimed for and succeeded in the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of the British Indian Empire.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War.
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Pegasus A.F.C.
Pegasus Association Football Club was an English amateur football club based in Oxford and composed of Oxbridge (Oxford and Cambridge) university students.
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Perranporth Airfield
Perranporth Airfield airfield is located southwest of Perranporth and southwest of Newquay, in the village of Trevellas, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Political history of the United Kingdom (1945–present)
When Britain emerged victorious from the Second World War, the Labour Party under Clement Attlee came to power and created a comprehensive welfare state, with the establishment of the National Health Service giving free healthcare to all British citizens, and other reforms to benefits.
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Political Warfare Executive
During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and black propaganda, with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of the Occupied countries.
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Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Scots Naitional Pairtie) is a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland.
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Secret history
A secret history (or shadow history) is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
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Sonia Olschanezky
Sonia Olschanezky (25 December 1923 – 6 July 1944) was a member of the French Resistance and the Special Operations Executive during World War II.
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Special Operations Executive
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation.
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Supermarine Seafire
The Supermarine Seafire was a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire adapted for operation from aircraft carriers.
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Supermarine Spitfire (early Merlin-powered variants)
The British Supermarine Spitfire was the only Allied fighter aircraft of the Second World War to fight in front line service from the beginnings of the conflict, in September 1939, through to the end in August 1945.
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Supermarine Spitfire (Griffon-powered variants)
The Rolls-Royce Griffon engine was designed in answer to Royal Naval specifications for an engine capable of generating good power at low altitudes.
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Supermarine Spitfire (late Merlin-powered variants)
The British Supermarine Spitfire was facing several challenges by mid-1942.
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Supermarine Spitfire operational history
The Supermarine Spitfire, the only British fighter to be manufactured before, during and after the Second World War, was designed as a short-range fighter capable of defending Britain from bomber attackPrice 2002, p. 35.
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The Hasty Heart
The Hasty Heart is a 1949 Anglo-American co-production directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd.
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The Myth of the Eastern Front
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture is a 2008 book by the American historians Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies of the University of Utah.
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Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II
This is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45.
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United Kingdom general election, 1935
The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935 and resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party.
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United Kingdom general election, 1945
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks.
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United Kingdom home front during World War II
The United Kingdom home front during World War II covers the political, social and economic history 1939-45.
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Universal history
A universal history is a work aiming at the presentation of the history of humankind as a whole, coherent unit.
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Vera Leigh
Vera Leigh (17 March 1903 – 6 July 1944) was a British heroine of World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive.
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Western Desert Campaign
The Western Desert Campaign (Desert War), took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African Campaign during the Second World War.
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Western European Summer Time
Western European Summer Time (WEST) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (יצחק בן אהרון;17 July 1906 – 19 May 2006) was an Israeli left-wing politician.
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Yolande Beekman
Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman (7 January 1911 – 13 September 1944) was a British heroine of World War II who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Special Operations Executive.
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1939 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1939 in the United Kingdom.
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1940 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1940 in the United Kingdom.
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1940 Republican National Convention
The 1940 Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 24 to June 28, 1940.
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1941 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1941 in the United Kingdom.
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1942 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1942 in the United Kingdom.
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1943 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1943 in the United Kingdom.
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1944 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1944 in the United Kingdom.
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1945 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1945 in the United Kingdom.
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78th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
The 78th Infantry Division, also known as the Battleaxe Division, was an infantry division of the British Army, raised during World War II that fought, with great distinction, in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy from late 1942–1945.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_during_World_War_II
