History | War History

When His Navigator Ejected Halfway Out The Plane, The Heroic Pilot Just Managed To Land And Save His Buddy’s Life

Being launched off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is a normal routine, but adrenaline junkie pilots love the radical feel of about 4…

Ideologies That Have Inspired Soldiers

Andrew Knighton

Warriors need a reason to fight. Sometimes self-interest is enough, men and women fighting for pay or self-defence. But more often than not, ideology plays…

Wars in Which Drugs Fuelled the Fighting

Andrew Knighton

Drugs have a long history as part of war. These days, their main role is a medicinal one, but down the centuries they have often…

Military Disasters Brought About By Timid Generals

Andrew Knighton

Recklessness can be a bad thing in a commander, getting the people beneath them killed by an excess of innovation and risk taking. But so…

Amazing War Footage Of Soldiers From 1899, When The Second Boer War Was Raging

“The Boers are not like the Sudanese, who stood up to a fair fight. They are always running away on their little ponies.” – General…

The Stories Behind Ten Soon-to-be-Forgotten War Songs

Jinny McCormick

Every war needs a song, we have collected ten songs from the past 300 years that were popular in war. A trip down memory lane!…

The Misfit Who, On His First Mission, Became the First Enlisted Airman To Receive a Medal of Honor

Shahan Russell

Maynard Harrison “Snuffy” Smith was such a screw-up, he joined the US Army to avoid jail. He earned the nickname, “Snuffy Smith,” because no one…

Dr. Ruth Trained as a Military Sniper Before Becoming a World-Famous Sex Therapist

Female Haganah members aiming their rifles + Portrait of Dr. Ruth Westheimer

From time to time, life will feed you an amazing fact that will rock your worldview and change the way in which you look at…

The Falklands War – A War for Lost Glory

Andrew Knighton

The Falklands War is looked back on by many as a foregone conclusion. Lasting only ten weeks, and it resulted in a clear British victory. But…

New Sources Claim Coco Chanel Was A Nazi Spy

Jinny McCormick

Coco Chanel is listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the 20th century. She is a fashion icon, of course, as…

The Story of James Lincoln Wynn – Captured At The Battle Of The Bulge, And POW Experience As Slave Labor During World War II – PART 2

Slave labor for the Reich Because he wasn’t an officer or a non-com, he and other privates were classified for “komando” – labor camp –…

These Ten Facts About WW1 Have Been Largely Forgotten

Joris Nieuwint

In these centennial years of the First World war, let’s look back at some of the more unknown facts about WW1. Were the Generals leading the…