Jack Beckett

Jack Beckett has been editor since 2012. Huge fan of war history and rural history and a motorbike rider.

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Articles by Jack Beckett:

Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC

Private James Stokes’ thirtieth birthday was February 6th, 1945. On the 1st of March, less than one month later, he came to the end of…

“My Heart Refused Such Sinister Grandeurs” – The Fall Of The Last Napoleon

It was a turbulent time in Europe. The year was 1870, and the Kingdom of Prussia held the reins of power. Prussia’s king, Wilhelm, was…

Last Battle Of The Vikings On The West Coast Of Scotland

It was the age of the Great Mongol Khans. It was the age of Byzantium, of the Holy Roman Empire. The wars of the Reconquista…

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…

Commander Rudder (2nd Rangers) 10 years later – I Took My Son to Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach

FROM HISTORIES OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS PREPARED BY THE ARMY HISTORICAL DIVISION. –  By W. C. HEINZ Thank you to our friends at OldMagazineArticles.com for…

The Mines At Messines – Over 1 Million Tons of Explosives – 20 have detonated, but 5 remain

In 1917, the world was engulfed in war. For the first time, the economics of industry had been applied to warfare on a huge scale.…

Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC

Private James Stokes’ thirtieth birthday was February 6th, 1945. On the 1st of March, less than one month later, he came to the end of…

The beginning of the end for the Teutonic Knights, Grunwald 1410

For more than two hundred years the might of the Order of Teutonic Knights had been steadily growing. It was forged in 1190, in the…

The Night Attack – Vlad the Impaler ambushes the Ottoman Sultan

Mehmet II, known as Mehmet the Conqueror, was one of the greatest military commanders of his day. The Ottoman Empire under his rule was vast,…

From The Tank Museum: Repainting The Tigers

For the new Tiger Collection, The Tank Museum’s Jagdtiger and Tiger II with pre-production turret were repainted to show how they looked when they were…

The Last Shogun – First Shots of the Boshin War

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…

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…