Smart, Beautiful and Deadly Russian Sniper Roza Shanina Made 54 Confirmed Kills in Less than a Year
In the deep silence of the vast Russian pine forest, a small, lonesome figure was walking. It was just a few years before the outbreak…
Queen Elizabeth II, The War Years
On Thursday, April 21st, Britain celebrates the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. The Queen is both the oldest and the longest…
Civil War In Japan – The Last Shogun Marches Toward The End Of An Era
On the 27th of January, 1868, the army of the Shogunate was marching toward Kyoto. For more than a quarter of a century, the Tokugawa…
Stug wreck – recovered from a river bed in Poland, was running a year later (image heavy)
German StuG IV Sturmgeschütz 75mm Tank Destroyer at the Armoured Weapons Museum, Land Forces Training Centre, Poznań, Poland. On the 18th January 1945, German forces…
Survived Nazi Dr Josef Mengele removing his kidney without anaesthesia & survived a gas chamber as he was the 201st person in line for a chamber of 200 people
An Israeli man, Yitzchak Ganon, had his life saved by heart specialists after refusing to visit medical professionals for a total of 64 years. While…
Massive amount of relics are still being found on the Eastern Front battlefields (image heavy)
Recently in the UK there was a program on TV that had caused outrage in the academic world and beyond. Channel 5 had been accused of…
Simply Beautiful: The last men of the American Revolutionary War – amazing photos of veterans of the war
In 1864, 81 years after the American Revolutionary War, Reverend E. B. Hillard and two photographers embarked on a trip through New England to visit,…
WWII deserters the US Army tried to hide: the 2013 book revealed how gangs of AWOL GIs terrorized Paris with a reign of mob-style violence
The book The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II, by Charles Glass, tells an interesting WWII story that not many have heard –…
The U.S. had “Backpack Nukes” that would be carried to battlefields during the cold war
If you think the tensions between Russia and United States have reached the heights of insanity now, you should invest some time to learn about…
Heroic End Of French Fleet – Scuttled 77 Ships To Avoid Capture By Nazi Germany
It was the middle of the night, and a large motorized force of Nazi German troops was descending on the port city of Toulon, on…
Boudica’s Uprising: A Fearsome Challenge To The Might Of Ancient Rome
The coastal county of Norfolk in the south-east of England is a peaceful place. Little villages are scattered throughout a patchwork of fertile fields and…
Bismarck Shipwreck: How the Wreck of the Bismarck Came to Rest on the Ocean Floor
Some years ago I was lucky enough to spend some time with a rear gunner of a Swordfish (“stringbag”) that was one of the planes…