Tank Battle at Dukla – WWII Battle in East Slovakia Featured at Svidnik Museum
Military history aficionados had a reason to rejoice in May, as the Military Historical Museum’s department in Svidnik (Prešov Region) kicked off its high season…
Living History – Tradition Keeps the Stories Alive
Stories and Stones, held at Fort Missoula Post Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Missoula, Montana, is a unique event that remembers the lives of some…
German Attack on Fort San Carlos and Teddy Roosevelt’s Response
Maracaibo is the second largest city in Venezuela with a population of 1.3 million people. It is situated along the waterway that runs from Lake…
Browning M1911s For Sale – US Gov’t Liquidating Stock of Classic Sidearm
Imagine entering the Army and receiving your personal firearms only to see that the pistol that you are issued, the Browning M1911, looks very much…
US Navy Cancels Hybrid Program
The US Navy has confirmed their intention to cancel a program that would have installed fuel-efficient hybrid electric drives in 34 of their destroyers after…
Foreigners who served in the Red Army in WWII
During World War II there were dozens of military formations consisting of foreign nationals fighting alongside the Red Army to turn back the Nazi invasion.…
Strange but True: Jews Fought For Germany in WWII
In early 2018 Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center pressed Finnish President Sauli Niinistö to open an investigation concerning the role Finnish volunteers played…
Dogs of War: New Memorial for Unsung Heroes of The Battlefields
Heroes of past wars have contributed significantly to the freedoms we enjoy today. Those that have saved lives by risking their own will never be…
The Remarkable History of the Original Assassins
The first group of assassins to be found in the historical record is that of the Hashshashin who operated in Persia, Syria, and Turkey, eventually spreading…
The Bureaucratic Goof that Brought Down the Berlin Wall
At 6 o’clock in the evening of November 9, 1989, a befuddled low-level member of the Soviet East German Politburo gave a press conference to…
The Largest Chariot Battle Ever: Kadesh – Hittites vs. Egyptians
For most of recorded history, The Hittite Empire was thought to be more of a myth than an actual fact. This state of affairs lasted…
Pizarro’s Incan Gambit: Audacity, Religion, and the Written Word
Although history is full of tales of how the European conquerors’ sharp wits and quick thinking paved the way for unlikely victories against seemingly insurmountable…