KAMIKAZE – Review by Mark Barnes
My daughter is studying sociology at university and it so happens that the three- year course includes a term on Japanese society during the 20th…
HISTORY IN YOUR HANDS – By Phil Hodges
Phil Hodges takes a brief look at collecting militaria with the help of advice from experienced dealers Denis Exall and James Aslett.Photographs © Denis Exall…
WWII Secret mission to save 100s of released British and US PoWs from the hands of the Soviets revealed
Towards the end of World War Two, Captain Robert Timble of the US Army had carried out around 35 bombing raids on important Nazi…
World of Tanks Video: Inside the Tanks – The Jagdtiger
As you may have read, we have partnered up with World of Tanks to bring you some great and cool content. At the bottom of…
New mass grave site located at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
A new mass grave at the site of the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has been discovered by researchers from the Netherlands. 70 years ago the…
Isle of Man war time B-17 crash remembered
Just before the end of World War Two in April 1945, troops back in Allied territory such as the UK and France began to relax…
TANK BATTLES OF WORLD WAR I – Review by Mark Barnes
This book was published over forty years ago by Ian Allan and back then it was presented in a larger format fitting in perfectly with…
US World War Two Raiders to receive Congressional Gold Medal
A group of World War Two heroes are to receive the US Congressional Gold Medal for their role in the war and are going to…
Japan reverts to its Imperial past – Rewriting of history textbooks in Japan
The role of Imperial Japan in the Second World War has already gone down as a dark chapter in history books. Japan’s treatment of its…
ALL ALONG THE CONTROL TOWER – Review by Mark Barnes
The Barten brothers are quite rightly noted for their automotive passions expressed in a series of genuinely lovely books of monochrome nostalgia. I repeat, this…
The escape of the ‘Orzel’ – an adventure of a Polish Submarine in WWII
There is no shortage of accounts of bravery and heroic escapes in the history of the Second World War. But there are very few stories…
World War Two brothers honored in Tulsa
A World War Two veteran from Tulsa, Oklahoma has retold his experiences of the war. Larry Lantow was a tank unit commander and the only…