Charles the Bold, Burgundy’s Flawed Reforming Warlord
Charles the Bold was a man who could have changed the face of Europe. Inheriting the Valois duchy of Burgundy in 1467, he was one…
How The Iranians Captured 10 US Sailors In January 2016
In January 2016, Iran made a public display of its internal bickering. On the one side were the moderates who wanted to open up to…
Did You Know? Richard Bong, USA’s Ace of Aces, Was Killed in A Test Flight
The names that line the pages of history are many in number – the lengthy lists of men and women who fought, who died, who…
Refusing To Abandon The Wounded, Chaplain Emil Kapaun Remained Behind to Care for His Men and Died in a Korean POW Camp
He didn’t carry a weapon, he wasn’t there to fight, but that didn’t stop chaplain Emil Kapaun from earning the nation’s highest military honor for…
Ghosts of Time: 39 Incredible Then & Now WWII Pictures
Not everyone was happy when the First World War ended, and it was not just the Germans, who were severely punished for their role in…
5 Secret Military Bases in Unbelievable Places (Watch)
A missile base buried under the ice, mysterious Japanese submarine bases in Mexico, a Nazi weather station in Canada, a secret Japanese WWII town in…
Killing The Fuhrer: The Many Attempts on Hitler’s Life Before WWII
One of the most hated men in the history of humanity survived many attempts on his life during his 12-year reign. Even though Adolf Hitler…
Pegasus Bridge the Movie – the Brits own ‘Band of Brothers’? The director tells us more
Historically, some of the best war films ever made have been British. That kind of ended when Hollywood stepped up and dominated the film and…
TANK: 100 Years of the World’s Most Important Armored Military Vehicle
From the Greek phalanx to Roman siege engines, plans by Leonardo da Vinci, and the wondrous imagination of H.G. Wells, the idea of the armored…
An Escape Tunnel is Located at this Holocaust Massacre Site
A group of archaeologists and mapmakers seems to have discovered a long-forgotten hand-dug tunnel. The 70-year-old tunnel, dug mostly by hand by 80 Jews, was…
Military Obituaries – Book Three – Review by Mark Barnes
Obituary writing is a discipline I admire very much. On most days my day job in newspapers has me copying cuts, cuttings or clippings –…
Women – The Backbone of Malta during WWII
Malta is situated in the Mediterranean Sea, 93km south of Sicily. It is an archipeligo of many little islands – the largest of which is…