War Memorial Defiled
After playing in a rugby game, a teenager of Pensyflog in Porthmadog of North Wales was celebrating and proceeded to get drunk and defile the…
WWII’s most daring escape
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two’s Most Daring Great Escape is a new book written by author Mark Felton that tells the…
The rise of virulent aboriginal Canadian snipers in World War I
Today no country can think of declaring war without having its snipers. They are now an inevitable part of any war. Most of the top…
Monty’s D–Day party girl knew all the secrets of Normandy landings
When nerves were at their peak on a night preceding D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, a girl of only 20 years age was entrusted…
Dreams do not stop with Age
Age is just a number if you are determined. Ralph Mayville, a great grandfather from Windsor, Canada, is a living example of this. A veteran…
Nuclear War Was Averted, Thanks to One Cold Warrior
The world may have been saved from a nuclear holocaust, based upon the decision of one man, a Russian officer aboard a Soviet submarine during…
Review of WWII movie: Fury
Fury is the name of the new movie by David Ayar, which takes place in April 1945 in Nazi Germany at the very end of…
Befriending the Germans after the War
After World War II, Anthony Brook, along with his parents and siblings, spent five years of his childhood living in a house in Hamburg with…
Balloons – Japanese Terror Weapon of WWII
Most Americans have no idea that the American mainland was attacked prior to 9/11. World War II history buffs may know that during 1942, shelling…
German Unification and the fall of Berlin Wall
The German unification and the final fall of the Berlin wall began in Hungary 25 years ago when the country’s government brought down the security fences…
Famous Italian Cyclist, Gino Bartali, is a Secret Hero
Gino Bartali was a famous Italian cyclist who won several titles in the 1930’s, including three Giro d’Italia events, a key cycling competition in Europe,…