Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Cold War photograph collection

Cold War

Martin Roemers is a Dutch photographer who grew up with the Cold War, which lasted from the late 1940’s into the early 1990’s. He heard…

Top secret naval communications base sold

top-secret naval communications base

Criggion Station was a top-secret naval communications base that was built in 1943 in Wales and used during both WWII and the Cold War. During…

Six Months – Three Canadian Brothers – all killed in WWII

Second World War

The Second World War took the lives of many young men who served in the military. But for the Wagner family, the loss was simply…

O.S.S: The Founder of Navy Seals

Navy Seals

The recently published book “First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit” written by Patrick K. O’Donnell uncovered the strategies…

War trench replicated at Heslington school

War trench

Lord Deramore’s School, a primary school located in Heslington, York, has created a replica of a war trench and bunker as part of its Armistice…

Every Day Is Veterans Day For Heat’s Pat Riley

Veterans Day

While Veterans Day are celebrated once a year, for Pat Riley, it’s a different ball game altogether. The president of the Miami Heat celebrates Veterans…

WWI: Profit in the name of lost

WWI

Ypres, Belgium, the city to witness the outbreak of the First World War. The first battle which was fought 100 years ago in this city…

Education cutbacks possible at Duxford Museum

Duxford Museum

According to the Prospect union, the Duxford Imperial War Museum has made a proposal to enforce cutbacks in education.  The reasoning behind this is so…

Fabian Ware: a man who lived for the deads

Fabian Ware

1914, during the First World War Britain saw a huge devastating loss of its human resource. The civilians as volunteers together with the British arm…

WWI Soldiers bedroom maintained for 100 years

WWI

After Hubert Rochereau lost his life fighting for his country during WWI, his devastated parents kept his bedroom exactly the same as the last time…

The discovered artefacts of WW1 at Helens Bay, Co Down

artefacts

The Department of Environment has finished their discovery for artefacts of First World War at the Grey Point Fort, Helens Bay, Co Down. And they…

The Civil War Trust announces Campaign 1776

Civil War Trust

It has been 240 years since the first shot was fired in what would later be named the Revolutionary War.  This war represented a turning…