Warlords
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Barbarossa to Berlin: 1941 to 1945
www.gmtgames.com/nnbb/main.html
Presents both Allied and Axis players with a wide range of exciting game choices, while illustrating the key historical factors of the war: from the importance of mechanised forces in combat to the importance of oil to fuel them.
D-Day
www.schoolshistory.org.uk/dday.htm
Fun game for students aged 12 to 16, presented as an 'action maze': a series of situations to do with D-Day are presented and decisions must be made on the best way to proceed.
Escape from Colditz
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/C/colditz/game.html
Online game from Channel 4 that recreates the repeated escapes from the prison that the Germans believed was escape-proof.
It's World War II: How would you cope?
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/teachers/kids.htm
Games for children from the National Archives, which find out how they would cope during the blitz and in a bomb shelter and with rationing.
The Stalin Subway
www.pcgameworld.com/downloads/file.php/id/6155/
In the Kremlin's depths, a covert plot is ripening against Stalin, now 72 years old but who remains a brutal force. This game from Buka Entertainment will immerse players in the thrilling atmosphere of Moscow in the dark 1950s.
Stalingrad
www.pcgameworld.com/downloads/file.php/id/5764/
Unfolding during the period July 1942 to January 1943, this is the story of
one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. Featuring two detailed campaigns, Stalingrad will
let the player take command over the Wehrmacht and lead the German forces into
the city, then switch to the Red Army and liberate the Soviet stronghold from
the occupiers and obliterate the 6th Army.
World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic
www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
launch_gms_battle_atlantic.shtml
Have you got what it takes to lead a convoy across the perilous North Atlantic? Check out this BBC game.
Battleground Europe
www.wwiionline.com/scripts/wwiionline/index.jsp
This is a multiplayer first-person virtual battlefield that covers a scale map of Europe with accurate terrain modelling. Thousands of players 'fight' online in a persistent world in which character advancement and career paths provide a rich RPG layer and strategic systems are driven by player missions and command structure. The game is always being updated with new vehicles, weapons and features, which are free to subscribers. The graphics are great and the weapons and vehicles look authentic. You need a monthly subscription to play.
