Ian Harvey

Ian Harvey is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Classified Nazi reports reveal Hitler’s bombing of German people

Nazi reports

A classified operation undertaken by the Nazis during World War Two has been uncovered by secret reports which have only now come to light. The…

D-Day Gadgets and Gear

D-Day

Wired Magazine is best known for its showcasing of the very latest gadgets that modern technology has to offer, so its June 2012 article on…

Soviet deadly air attack over Nazi’s Berlin – June 1941

In June 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa to attack the Soviet Union. Thousands of German troops, tanks and aircraft stormed the west of the country.…

World War One Lusitania cruise liner sinking remains a mystery

Lusitania

On the 175th anniversary of cruise liner company, Cunard, starting business, three of its flagship liners will visit Liverpool, the city where they were all…

World War Two-era mustard agent stockpile to be destroyed

  A store of World War Two era US Army chemical weapons is due to be destroyed in Colorado. The store is at the US…

Secret Nazi files reveal V-2 rocket tests on German people

Nazi reports

Secret Nazi records reveal how Hitler tested the V-2 rocket on his own German people. The secret records were filed as highly classified SS documents and…

D-Day landing craft designer to be commemorated in Normandy

A petition has been launched for a permanent memorial for a World War Two boat designer to be built on Utah Beach in Normandy, France…

New exhibition launched at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans

A new exhibition is opened at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans. The exhibition’s main attraction is a new feature film called,…

D-Day dog tag returned to US Army soldier’s widow

dog tag

Seventy years since Allied troops landed on France’s Normandy beaches to attack the occupying German forces, a dog tag has been found buried in the…

British prisoner of war camps revisited around the UK

prisoner of war camps

Much is written about Allied prisoners of war held in Germany and Nazi-occupied countries during World War Two. But little is discussed about the German…

VE Day fighter flyover for Washington, D.C.

VE Day

On the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over the Nazis during World War Two, a vintage plane flyover will take place on 8th May…

Battle of Okinawa remembered 70 years on

Seventy years ago this Easter, US troops began the biggest land assault of the Pacific during World War Two on the island of Okinawa. With…