Volume 28 includes features on battlefields from Norway to the Soviet Union and the Mediterranean to the Pacific. The pin-prick British commando raid on Vaagso — an island off the Norwegian coastline — in December 1941 is contrasted with the major Anglo-American landings on the Riviera in August 1944. Both actions were well photographed and each produce marvellous comparisons in the 'then and now' theme of After the Battle publications. The massacre at Gardelegen, in former East Germany in April 1945, with its shocking photographic evidence, is described in detail from the files of the investigation held after the war. The crime was little known during the years when the Iron Curtain divided Germany, and the huge cemetery where local civilians, acting under American orders, buried the victims is still maintained by the municipality of Gardelegen today. A major feature describes and illustrates — 'then and now' — the four battles for the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, savagely fought campaigns which included the hugely controversial loss and recapture of the city by the SS-Panzerkorps in February-March 1943. Another article covers the Maxim Gorkii battery at Sevastopol on the Crimea which still can be seen in full working order under a Russian crew. In May 2000, Canada finally joined the ranks of the other major warring nations in recovering the remains of one of her unidentified dead from the battlefield for reburial in Ottawa as the Canadian Unknown Soldier. This official act of remembrance was contrasted the same year in Britain by a group of like-minded individuals who set out to erect memorial plaques to groups of British firemen — whose exploits had been largely overlooked — who lost their lives during the Blitz. Other articles cover Bora Bora in the Pacific; exploits in Trieste, Malta and Rhodes in the Mediterranean, and the destruction of the German U-Boat pens in Hamburg.
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