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The New Reich Chancellery, a look in Hitlers center of Power

In this photo series, we are taking a look at the New Reich Chancellery from it’s construction to its after-life. All pictures, except the “Afterlife”,…

LAWRENCE IN ARABIA – Review by Chris Buckham

Altruism is not a principle of war nor is it a principle of international relations and it is with this pretext that one must approach…

Dunkirk Veterans visited Paris for 75th commemoration Ceremony of the Evacuation

The Veterans from the famous Dunkirk Evacuation are getting together in northern France to commemorate the most daring rescue in military history. They will pay…

George ‘Blood and Guts’ Patton

George Smith Patton Jr was born on the 11th November, 1885, into a family with a long record of military service.  He saw action in…

‘The Camp Vermont’ – the civil war history of Spring Bank

It is a surprising fact that a civil war camp named Camp Vermont is not in Vermont; it is rather located in the present day…

RAF trained Soviet Pilots in a Secret Mission during WWII

Soviet Pilots

Some of the Soviet airmen who came to Scotland in 1943 to undertake top-secret training at Errol Airfield, including Commander Peter Kolesnikov, front row, left.…

A WW2 Veteran is building his ‘Online Profile’ for the generations to come

WW2 Veteran

[Via] In the recent decades, advancements in science and technology essentially means societies and people have to adhere to new norms in order to keep…

TAKE ME TO FRANCE – Review by Mark Barnes

There is an endless debate in the UK about how so many people from here make little or no effort to learn a foreign language. …

America’s First Victory Against the German Army Was 97 Years Ago Today

By Matthew J. Davenport, author of First Over There:The Attack on Cantigny, America’s First Battle of World War I (St. Martin’s Press, released May 12,…

US Senator Howard Cannon remembered for D-Day role as Co-Pilot of a C-47

US Senator Howard Cannon who died recently has found to have played a crucial role as a paratrooper in the D-Day invasion of France during World…

Czech city of Brno remembers death march of Sudenten Germans

Brno

[Via] Brno, Czechoslovakia’s second largest city, has commemorated and apologised for a ‘death march’ which took place in the city in May 1945. At the…

Queen’s First Visit to Nazi Concentration Camp

The Queen is expected to pay a reflective and commemorative visit to the sites of Nazi death camp at Bergen-Belsen. British troops defeated the SS…