President John F Kennedy’s DC-3 Gift To Mobutu Found Back In Congo, SOS For The Scrapper
Chaotic Start of the Congo State. Until 1960, the Congo was under Belgian Colonial rule. On June 30 of that year, a huge new Central African…
The 12 Best Civil War Movies
150 years after its end, the Civil War remains one of the most important events in American history. It has been depicted countless times in…
World War II As You’ve Never Seen it Before: In ORIGINAL Color!
When we think of World War 2 we think of black and white images and movies, however some of the cameramen were equipped with color…
A STREET IN ARNHEM – The Agony of Occupation and Liberation – Review by Mark Barnes
Like a lot of people my exposure to the epic of Arnhem began with Cornelius Ryan in 1974 and I still have my original copy…
William Ash: The Prisoner of War Who Wouldn’t Stop Escaping
William Ash was a survivor of the Nazis’ prisoner of war camps, surviving starvation, freezing temperatures, violence and slave labor. For the prisoners who survived…
World War Two Hurricane Excavated From Beachy Head
The daughter and granddaughter of a World War Two Polish pilot have helped to excavate his plane near Brighton in England. Kaziemierz Wünsche crash landed…
40th anniversary commemorations of the Vietnam War
Booby trap. Photo credit On the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the country is looking to commemorate and remember its violent…
The Igman March: Jugoslav Resistance Fighters Risked Freezing to Death to Escape From Nazi Encirclement – By Edin Hardauš
The breakthrough and escape of the 1st Proletarian Brigade, led by Koca Popovic, through the German encirclement is known as The Igman March. This breakthrough…
3 Wars That Paved the Way for World War I
The First World War was devastating in its scope and utterly unlike what national leaders expected. As such, it was seen by many as an…
Scrapping And Salvaging World War II Aircraft in North Africa
Wartime film clips show U.S. Aircraft and fighters at Telergma in North Africa at a field scrapyard, yielding valuable parts to keep ’em flying. Any…
Lyudmila Pavlichenko The Most Succesful Female Sniper Ever With 309 Kills
When the most countries of the world avoid putting women in the front line for some reasons during the World War II, the Soviet Union…
PANZER – The German Tanks Encyclopedia – Review by Mark Barnes
This is the first book I have seen from this publisher from sunny Aix-en-Provence and if they’re all like this l want to see many…