Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Colville Tribe Warriors – Six Brave Native American Vets from WWII

The Navajo “Code Talkers,” while being the most famous, were not the only Native Americans that fought with distinction during WWII.  Men from the Colville…

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…