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Affleck-Damon Team Up for Battle of Bunker Hill Movie

We will be expecting a new historical epic coming in the  not so distant future from Warner Bros. with Hollywood actors Ben Affleck and Matt…

The Knights Templar – The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Crusader Order

Malcolm Higgins

A crimson cross emblazoned on a white background; a simple design, perhaps, but behind it lies one of the most remarkable stories in the history…

MoH: Private Towle of the 82nd Airborne Stopped a German Armored Counter Attack in Holland with a Bazooka

Jeff Edwards

Many might hold the common assumption that in the battle of man versus tank, heavy armor is sure to win.  However, students of the history…

True: A Stranded Dutch Warship In WWII Disguising Itself As An Island To Evade Japanese Bombers

The Netherlands officially surrendered on May 15th, 1940. However, its Navy continued the fight. Part of the navy was deployed in the Dutch East Indies…

Facts You Didn’t Know About Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union

A quick look at the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in 33 facts 1.The invasion of the Soviet Union was the most…

Das Boot, The Background, Facts and Goofs

“Das Boot” is a 1981 German war film epic. Meaning “The Boat,” it is an adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s 1973 German novel of the same…

Otto Rahn, secretly anti-Nazi, Joined The SS In Search For The Holy Grail and Became The Inspiration For Indiana Jones

Otto Wilhelm Rahn was a German writer and medievalist who was obsessed with finding the Holy Grail. This was the cup that Jesus supposedly drank…

Down Street Tube Station Where Churchill Hid from Luftwaffe Bombs, Opens to Public

From being an actual tube station for a quarter of a century to becoming Winston Churchill’s hideaway during WWII [he fondly nicknamed the abandoned Down…

Bletchley Park Code Breakers – A Secret Letter From Eisenhower

Imagine today’s world without computers – imagine further – a world of ciphers, secret letters, code breakers and secret intelligence centres – this is the…

Soldier Missing in Action for 72 Years to Return Home

A 97-year-old man in Minnesota who waited 72 years for his younger brother to return home from World War II may finally get his wish…

Mike Durant (Black Hawk Down) – Not an Ordinary Man

On first meeting Michael J. Durant, you would find him a pleasant, ordinary, American, family man. He enjoys playing ice hockey and is also dynamic…

The Notorious Andersonville Confederate POW Camp Where 13,000 Died and Henry Wirz

“Hang Him” and “Remember Andersonville” were epithets screamed by former Union prisoners of war at the hanging, on 10th November 1895, of one of America’s…