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10 Strange Facts About Sir Winston Churchill

Lincoln Riddle

Winston Churchill may be most well known for his time spent as the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, but he contributed…

Dad’s Army Arnold Ridley Went From real British Soldier to Playing One on TV

David Herold

They say gaining real life experience in any given field is the only way to truly learn something, to help you retain the valuable information…

The Real Assassins – Legends – History and Myths

Who were the Order of the Assassins? The year is 1090. A secret order later referred to as the Order of the Assassins begins it’s…

20 Gut Wrenching Images Of Kids of War

Damian Lucjan

Wars are always started by the adults, but not only adults take part. War does not spare anyone, so armed kids aren’t a rare occurrence.…

Outnumbered Ten To One – Rallying To The Flag Until The End

Jack Beckett

It was the 27th of July, 1880. In the incredible heat of the high Afghan summer, an army of two and a half thousand men…

The Last Shogun – First Shots of the Boshin War

Jack Beckett

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…

Watch Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Battle Freak Waves During Massive Storm

Ever since the Aircraft Carrier has replaced the battleships as the queens of the sea, they have defined what modern sea power is all about.…

Battle of Berlin – Hammering The Nail In the Coffin Of The Third Reich

For a war that left 60 million dead, countless lives permanently destroyed and hundreds of thousands homeless and in need, the Battle of Berlin proved…

Mysterious Death Of Rasputin, The Siberian Monk Who Brought Down The Tsar Of Russia

Shahan Russell

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in a remote Siberian village but died in a Russian palace on 30 December 1916. Despite his alleged…

No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy – The Intellectual Genius Of General James “Mad Dog” Mattis

Often referred to as the General Patton of the modern era, General James “Mad Dog” Mattis once told a group of Iraqi tribal elders “I…

A Brief History of the SAS, Britain’s Fighting Elite

Andrew Knighton

Britain’s principal special forces unit, the SAS are perhaps the country’s most famous military unit They are internationally influential experts in special missions. World War…

The Crash of the only flyable Lockheed P-38 Lightning in Europe – July 15 1996

Joris Nieuwint

The only Lockheed P-38 Lightning that was flyable in Europe was completely destroyed when it crashed at Duxford Airfield near Cambridge, England. The crash occurred…