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JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS 1897-1945 – Review by Mark Barnes

JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS

Any regular readers of the reviews page would know by now that I quite a like old warship photographs so when I got notice of…

EXCLUSIVE Avenue Of Spies – Part One – Donald Coster Survives the Blitzkrieg

War History Online is proud to be able to present you this exclusive extracts from Alex Kershaws new book: Avenue of Spies Part One – Donald…

He slammed his hand on the table and said to Hitler “I will not take orders from a local Nazi chieftan”… and got away with it

This is General Dietrich von Saucken. As you can see, he is literally the archetypal monocled patrician Prussian general. In World War I, he was…

Unexploded ordnance more prevalent in the US than previously thought

Unexploded ordnance from World War Two is a common find in Germany, France and Britain, but it is rarely seen on the beaches of Florida.…

Author J.R.R. Tolkien took inspiration from World War One experiences

Researchers and historians have uncovered a World War One location where the writer and novelist J.R.R. Tolkien fought. Before becoming a world famous author, J.R.R. Tolkien…

I CHOSE THE SKY – Review by Mark Barnes

I CHOSE THE SKY

Leonard ‘Tich’ Rochford achieved twenty-nine victories as a fighter pilot during the Great War. His genuinely lovely account of his war service was first published…

Malta – the greatest siege in history Part III- Defending St Elmo from the Ottomans

The garrison of St Elmo consisted a hundred knights and some seven hundred soldiers.  Amongst the latter were four hundred Italian mercenaries. Into the ranks…

86 Remains Used for Nazi Human Experiments Discovered In Strasbourg Labratory

86 remains of Holocaust Jews used in Nazi human experiments were discovered in a forensic medicine institute in Strasbourg in eastern France recently. These 86 remains were…

Allerberger and Hetzenauer, German Snipers Racked Up Over 600 Kills

Jozef Allerberger was born in the vicinity of Wals-Siezenheim, Austria, on 26 December 1924 (although in his memoirs he states he was born in September),…

Fly past for World War Two female veteran pilot

A World War Two female veteran pilot has been honoured with a fly past as she turned 99 years old. Dorothy Olsen turned 99 this…

World War One battle ship, the HMS M33, restored and open to public

HMS M33

[Via] A World War One battle ship that was used during the Gallipoli campaign and is the only remaining ship from that battle has been…

12 Most Amazing WWII Posters & Ads – The Dakota Hunter

German Kriegsmarine Magazine, Propaganda announcing the U-boat attacks on the NY harbor They came close, but the announcement was too optimistic. With the rapid advance…