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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…

Battle of Omdurman – When The British With 11,000 Soldiers Took On 60,000 Natives in Sudan, Losing 47 Killed

Andrew Knighton

All through the darkness of the night, a British infantryman waits nervously by the banks of the Nile. The Mahdists, infamously bloodthirsty savages, are just…

Here’s Why William Wallace Won At Stirling Bridge In The Face Of Overwhelming Odds

Andrew Knighton

On 11 September 1297, an outnumbered Scottish army defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. The most spectacular victory of William Wallace, the…

‘Mad’ Jack Churchill – The Only Man To Kill An Enemy Soldier With A Longbow In WW2

To those he fought beside, Jack Churchill seemed like a man without fear, but to those he faced in combat, he was a terrifying figure,…

The Heroic German Officer Who Gave His Life Trying to Save an American in a Minefield

Shahan Russell

October 7, 1994, saw a strange sight over the Hürtgen War Cemetery in Hürtgen, Germany. The cemetery is the final home of 3001 bodies –…