A Brief History of the Amber Room – Does Anyone Know Where it Is?
Formed from several panels of the brilliantly translucent amber and its splendor amplified by gold leaf, mirrors, gemstones, and candlelight, the Amber Room was an…
Does Hitler Have Any Living Relatives? The 1945 Extinction Agreement of Adolf Hitler’s Family Tree
The Hitler bloodline is a highly convoluted one. It has taken historians a lot of digging to unearth authentic and generally acceptable information regarding Adolf…
Sails on Viking Longships – Were They Really Red & White?
It’s a common enough scene from movies and TV shows: a seaside village on the English coast, sometime in the Dark Ages. Peasants, monks and…
Coffee & War The Origins of the Americano
The Origins of the Americano Have you ever wondered why every Italian style coffee house now sells something they call an Americano? For most people,…
Mauthausen Survivor, Immigrant & US Army Volunteer Denied the Medal of Honor for 55 Years
In 2005, President George W. Bush placed the Medal of Honor around the neck of a hero. That hero did not earn that medal during…
The Highest Soviet Hotel That Survived the Nazis, But Did Not Survive the Fire
For sixty years, the highest mountain hotel of the USSR and Russia was located on the southeast slope of Mount Elbrus at an altitude of…
The True Story That Inspired The Movie Black Hawk Down (With the Super 6-1 Footage)
Many people have seen the blockbuster action flick Black Hawk Down. Mixed in among all the Hollywood action and big movie stars is a tale…
An Examination of Cree Warfare
The lack of written sources for many Native Americans limits our study of their history. The only ones we do have mainly come from Europeans,…
The 12 Top Secret Military Operations in History
It is not news that military outfits all over the world have large, sealed-off archives of highly classified information. Secret operations have been essential functions…
WW2 Stockpile of 1.5 million Purple Hearts is Now Running Out – Originally Made For The Invasion of Japan
Nowadays the Purple Heart is widely known as the medal given to members of the United States military who are injured or killed in action…
How Napoleon Won The Propaganda War – He Was Good At It
Napoleon was not the first military leader to make use of propaganda to promote his image. But what made Napoleon’s approach unique was the extent…
The Mighty Iowa-Class Ships, Formidable Weapons
Is there still a place for battleships in modern naval combat? Were these great steel beasts sent out to pasture too soon? Commissioned in World…