New Book Sheds Light on Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp built by the Nazis specifically for women. Located 50 miles north of Berlin, it opened four months before the…
NOAA seeks to preserve naval battle site “Graveyard of the Atlantic”; area residents concerned over long term economic effects
Federal officials overseeing the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary off Cape Hatteras, N.C., are seeking to extend their jurisdiction to an area dubbed “The Graveyard of…
Civilian Jobs Done by Roman Legionaries
Though it originally began purely as a war machine, the Roman army evolved to fill other roles. This was an inevitable outcome of the growth…
The Last Shogun – First Shots of the Boshin War
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…
When 20 Canadian Prisoners Were Murdered By The Waffen SS In Normandy – The Ardenne Abbey Massacre
In the early days of the Normandy campaign 20 Canadian soldiers, members of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 27th Armoured Regiment (part of the…
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…
Things You Didn’t Know About Hadrian’s Wall
Though long since reduced to ruins, the line of Hadrian’s Wall is still visible through the countryside of northern England, from Bowness on the west…
Mysterious Death Of Rasputin, The Siberian Monk Who Brought Down The Tsar Of Russia
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…
They Shot Each Other Down Then Depended On Each Other For Survival In The Norwegian Wilderness
Into the White was a 2012 Norwegian film loosely based on real events from World War II’s Norwegian Campaign, when the Allies tried to keep the…
Austria Wants To Seize House Where Hitler Was Born
The Austrian government has been faced with a dilemma regarding what to do with the house where Adolf Hitler was born. In April 1889, Hitler…
A remarkable lady: Patricia Barry – Codebreaker In WWII
On 21st August 1921, Hilda Patricia Rawlinson was born in Walthamstow, a suburb in the east end of London, to Percy and Hilda Rawlinson. Her…