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Whiskey On The Rocks – When Sweden Woke Up To Find a Russian Submarine Stuck On a Rock

In October 1981, the Soviet submarine (NATO codename: Whiskey) S-363 accidentally hit an underwater rock about 10 kilometres  from the main Swedish naval base at…

SHAMEFUL: National World War Two Monument becomes playground for visitors

When visitors attend Washington, D.C.’s National World War Two Monument they expect to be able to have a moment of quiet to pay their respects…

Mitsubishi Plans To Apologies To British POWs Too

Japanese motor car and technology company, Mitsubishi has announced that it will be making a formal apology to British prisoners of war during World War…

US-Russian Memorial Flight Commemorates War Time Journey

On the 70th anniversary commemorations of the end of World War Two, US-Russian memorial flight is taking place between the two countries. During the war…

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…