Germany’s worst secret agent
Well dressed and attractive, Armgaard Karl Graves seemed to fit the mold of a successful spy. He was a secret agent who went into Edinburgh…
Second World War: The backdrop of the movies in the race for Oscars
Whether it is a moviemaker or studio where movies are made both of them love to make war movies. On the other hand audience also…
Lost bodies of five airmen to be recovered after 70 years
Five soldiers from Halifax HR980 who were killed in 1943 during a night raid have never had their bodies recovered. These WWII airmen were shot…
Hanbury Crater: Britain’s biggest WWII explosion site 70 years on
Seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion in far distant England.…
Fantasy Imitation of John Cairncross in “The Imitation Game”
Gayle Brinkerhoff found “The Imitation Game” to be the fantasy portrayal of her late husband John Cairncross who was an Enigma code breaker at Bletchley…
Propaganda by Hollywood’s Greats in War documentaries
During the Second World War some of Hollywood’s greatest movie producers and directors produced propaganda movies and presented to the public as authentic documentaries. The…
US warship under makeover
A US navy cruiser which was used during the Second World War is now found as a floating museum on the waterfront of lake Erie…
TV’s Dan Snow discovers his great-grandmother was a WWI volunteer orderly
After Dan Snow, historian and presenter from The One Show, discovered that his great-grandmother, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, worked as a volunteer aid helping wounded…
Will the Chinese wartime forced labourers get justice this time?
An association of lawyers, academics and forced labourers and their families in China have sued two Japanese companies that forced Chinese men and women as…
Wreckage sites of 3 WW-II fighter planes at Loktak Lake identified
Seventy years have passed since the Second World War and we are still discovering previously unidentified wreckages of fighter planes and wartime artefacts. Recently, three…
Forced labour lawsuit accepted by Beijing court
Chinese citizens that were used as forced labourers by the Japanese during WWII have requested compensation. A court in Beijing has accepted the lawsuit. The…
Warships being stripped bare for scrap metal
Two of the most celebrated British wartime ships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, sunk off the coast of Malaysia in 1941. There also…