Despatch Rider On The Western Front 1915 – 18 – Review by Wayne Osborne
It’s occurred to me over the last few months that diary keeping was frowned upon and against regulations during a large part of the Great…
Stunning Video: Low Fly Pass Of Bolivian Curtiss Commando Before Its Fatal Flight
In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you will hear the roaring sound of a couple of Radial Piston engines R-2800’s and see impressive footage of an…
The Roman Barbarian Wars; The Era of Roman Conquest – Review by William McLaughlin
Roman wars against “barbarians” can often be very difficult to cover. In victory, they can be deemed inconsequential or unworthy of special mention by ancient…
Forgotten History – Mengele’s Reluctant Assistants
I am not going into the details of the horrific acts of the evil personified called Joseph Mengele. His quote ‘The more we do to…
Paid with interest – Vietnam veteran shares story of service, repayment of 48-year-old debt
War History Online presents this Guest Article from Jeremy P. Amick The narrative often shared by Vietnam veterans is that when they graduated from high school…
The Great War Illustrated (1915) – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we have the second volume in a series that it is safe to assume has three more to go. There really is a limited…
Gunship Wanted: Fairchild AC-119K Stinger For An Aviation Museum Display
Feature Photo depicts an AC-119K Stinger while firing its array of guns in an attack on North Vietnamese trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail (early…
Destination Pacific – Review by Mark Barnes
Many years ago my ex-wife’s family tried their best to get her father to write his life story down but he refused. He was a…
Almost Half A Million Axis POWs Were Kept In The United States
The Germans were surprised at how many Russian POWs they had in such a short interval of time. Almost 3,000,000 people suddenly fell into their…
Battleground – Gallipoli – Anzacs The Landing – Review by Dr Wayne Osborne
This is one of Pen & Sword’s hugely popular Battleground series and the fact that this book is in its second print run is testimony…
The Day That Stuka Pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel Sank The Soviet Battleship Marat
The 20-year-old Silesian pastor’s son, Ulrich Rudel began his pilot training for the German Luftwaffe in 1936. Rudel volunteered for the new dive-bombing Stuka formations…
Three of a kind: The stories of three pilots from different conflicts – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
The self-publishing juggernaut rumbles on with this entertaining and quite personal work from Kerry White from Australia. Having published two previous books, he now turns to the…