The Monk who Stopped Bullets with Silk: Inventing the Bulletproof Vest
This post is part of Culture.pl series and Stories From The Eastern West It’s 16th March 1897 in Chicago. Two men stand face-to-face in a…
Courage And Valour – New Zealanders In The Italian Campaign of WWII
The largely forgotten story of New Zealand’s contribution to the liberation of Italy between 1943 and 1945 is being told in a free podcast series…
The Nizam-I Cedid Army and the end of Selim III
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Taşkın Bora Dayangaç The Birth of Reformation The Nizam-ı Cedid Army was created to reform the Ottoman…
The Myths Of The Montana Class Battleships
War History Online presents this Guest Article by Chris Knupp. Artist’s impression of the Montana class Battleship Myth #1: The Montana class Ignored the Panama Canal…
The Berlin Special Forces Team Tasked with Nuking the Soviet Union
War History Online presents this Guest Article from by James Stejskal Think the Russian threat worries the United States now? At the height of the…
A Letter From The Front 1915 – A Story About Private G.W. Short
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Bev Pook, assisted by Andy Bailey. George William Short was born in Southwick Sussex in the last…
A Homeland Denied: In the Footsteps of a Polish POW – By Irena Kossakowski
Illustrated with photographs and documents, “A Homeland Denied: In the Footsteps of a Polish POW ” is not just a military history book. It is the story of my…
The Survival Of Franco’s Regime During World War II
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Manolis Peponas The dictatorship of general Fransisco Franco in Spain was one of the most despotic…
Colourised War Planes – By Mark McConville
Striking pictures of the fighter planes and bombs used during World War Two have been given a new lease of life after being expertly colourised.…
The Battle of Tarawa Colourised – By Tom Dare
Incredible colorised photos showing the lengths American soldiers went to to capture several Pacific Islands from the Japanese during the Second World War have been…
Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri – Review By Stuart McClung
The historiography of the guerrilla phase of the Civil War has been on the increase in recent years with notable works by Michael Fellman and…
The Most Decorated Panzer Companies Of The Wehrmacht PART 3 – 4th Company, Panzer-Regiment 35
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Evan Pinter Continues from: Part 2 – 13th (heavy) Company, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 and Part 1 – 2nd Company, 502nd…