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VE Day was the start of a Cold War battle for Lithuania

A military parade during celebrations in the Soviet Union in 1983 of the anniversary of the October Revolution, via Wikipedia Even though VE Day marked…

Vietnam war Reenactment – a documentary about war mockers

War games make sense, conducted to reenact the war scenarios to provide the troops with an opportunity to assess their abilities and skills. These war…

Hitlers Horses from the New Reich Chancellery recovered by German Authorities

Image via Wikipedia After decades of disappearance in the complex and in some cases impenetrable art black market, some historical relics belonging to Adolf Hitler’s Third…

How the movie ‘The Downfall’ changed the way we think about evil

Portraying Hitler

Without a doubt, acting is an art; the best among the lot is the one who could literally immerse in the character he/she is trying…

CHINDIT Versus JAPANESE INFANTRYMAN – Review by Phil Hodges

They say”Never judge a book by its cover.”Well I don’t agree with that. Especially when I’ve an Osprey Book in front of me. In fact…

WATCH: 15 Times World War 3 Nearly Started

In the years since WWII, the possibility of a World War 3 has not been a stretch of the imagination with continuous conflicts throughout the…

Ghosts of the Gooney Bird – Part 2 by Hans Wiesman

The successful photo series as shown in my last report as Guest Blogger, will have a follow-up with this Volume II. Amazing photos of the…

40 Facts about the Dunkirk Evacuation of WW2

The end of May, early June 1940, 75 years ago in the early days of the Second World War, the most amazing rescue mission took…

Private Voytek The Polish Bear Soldier

It was not uncommon for army units to have their own mascots to keep up morale during war, most of the times the mascot was…

Operation Semut – most successful stealth operation of the Second World War

Operation Semut

[Via] Jonathan Tredrea, 95, is one of the eight parachuters who landed from a plane in Barion on March 25, 1945 to the surprise of…

Remains of a Canadian Soldier from WWII discovered in Netherlands

Remains of a Canadian Soldier

Pte. Albert Laubenstein appears in this undated photo [Via] The remains of a Canadian soldier who died during Second World War has been recovered and…

Dunkirk boats sail back in 75th anniversary commemorations

On the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, some of the original wooden boats that went over to rescue the Allied soldiers from France…