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Images of War Roundup – By Mark Barnes

Here we go again with a roundup of recent Great War titles in the Images of War range from Pen & Sword publishers. For the…

100 years on – Looking Back at the Importance of the Battle of Jutland

Lasting roughly 36 hours on May 31st 1916, the Battle of Jutland changed the course of the First World War. It was the only major…

War Movie Anthropoid – The Assasination of Reinhard Heydrich – Has An August Release Date

One of the most infamous Nazis is being taken on by Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan. A drama called Anthropoid is all set to be…

Caesar’s elite Germanic Cavalry

By Ludwig H. Dyck During Gaius Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul (58-51 BC) and during the civil war (50-45 BC) that followed, Caesar commanded over…

B-29 Doc Gets Certified for Airworthiness!

The B-29 bomber known as Doc may be flying again before the summer is over. On May 20th, the nonprofit group Doc’s Friends announced that…

Scandal of the Century – New Book Claims USA Knew Of Pearl Harbor Plans For Months

Few words are more disheartening to Americans than Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “day of infamy,” and few photos more provocative than the image of the burning…

Have You Seen This? Snoopy & Charlie Brown Honoring The D-Day Sacrifice (Watch)

This amazing cartoon is called “What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? A Tribute”. It’s an animated television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by…

These Jews Took Up Arms Against Nazi Germany & Fought Back Without Hope

Life in a Ghetto was the unfortunate fate of many Jewish citizens during the Nazi Party’s reign over Germany and its many occupied territories. Crammed…

10 Amazing Recent WWII Discoveries

Seven decades after World War Two ended, artifacts from this period are still being discovered around the globe. These range from fighter airplanes in the desert…

Why were the Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan?

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With President Obama’s recent visit to Hiroshima, the question is raised again: why did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb? Was it necessary to convince…

New Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam

After batting the location of a proposed Holocaust Memorial around for the past two years, the authorities in Amsterdam have finally put a peg in the…

Remains of TBM-1C Avenger Torpedo Bomber found near Palau

An American aircraft, a TBM-1C Avenger, missing since July 1944 was recently located in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island nation of Palau by Project…