Given the Second World War has become something like Britain’s founding myth, to make this point feels like denigrating our national story.

Nazi Germany tried to take on the world and lost. Although if they had succeeded, they would not have held onto it for very long.

We will be educated on the horror of this sort of war.

The tank had mixed results at first, but as it developed it became a vital military tool used by nations across the world.

When 1941 became 1942, the Wehrmacht had exhausted much of their resources in the initial invasion and did not have the strength to launch an all-out attack on the whole front as they did in the previous year