Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Young Lady of the Lake Discovers 1500-Year-Old Sword

July 15, 2018 was just another family day out at Lake Vidöstern for the Vanecek family. Nothing out of the ordinary had been planned, but…

True Crimes Including Stealing Children for the Master Race

It’s hard to imagine there are war stories as bad as the Holocaust of World War II, or the internment of Japanese citizens in North…

How the Mayor of Vilnius Dealt With Cars Parked in the Cycle Lane

The 15 ton amphibious eight-wheeled military vehicle barely slowed as it crushed the luxury car. In a video released by the mayor’s office, a man…

Battle of Britain Hero Archie McInnes Takes to the Skies at 99

Flight Lieutenant Archie McInnes is one of the last surviving World War Two veterans of the Battle of Britain. He joined the RAF in 1938…

Da Vinci As Saboteur? Did The Artist Deliberately Design Bad Weapons?

It’s hard to imagine Leonardo Da Vinci as anything other than a brilliant painter and sculptor, scientist and humanist. He is the man who created…

Spy Planes Break the Mold With Their Remarkable Engineering

Enter the term “Dragon Lady” into Google, and more than two million hits pop up, most of which define it as a pejorative term for…

Sunken WWII Tanker is Ecological Time Bomb

The Franken was a German tanker that sank at the end of World War II. It was capable of carrying up to 11,000 tons of…

The “Forgotten War” That Has Never Ended

Has a country actually gone to war if it never publicly declared its intentions? Decidedly yes, if the Korean War is carefully examined. In 1950,…

The Failed Secret Mission to Convince Italy to Abandon the Nazis

Wars don’t just happen on enormous battlefields–they are also conducted in secret meetings, back door deals, and one-on-one in conference rooms. Sometimes the talks that…

Man Finds German WWII Bomber Buried on UK Beach

Chris Gleadell of Sheringham, UK, made a unique discovery when he nearly tripped over some metal parts sticking out of the sand of a Norfolk…

Did You Know World War I Dragged On Even After the Armistice Was Signed?

Painting depicting the signing of the Armistice that put an end to World War I

The end of the Great War wasn’t the slam dunk history books and popular culture imply. The Allies wanted more from Germany than mere defeat:…

Buried by Germans Now 82nd AB paratrooper to be buried in Pennsylvania

74 years ago, during World War II, a young American soldier named Willard “Bud” Jenkins was serving his country in the Netherlands when he was…