Soviet soldier turned French Resistance officer dies at age of 95
World War Two Soviet soldier, Nikolai Vasenin spent the war working tirelessly against German forces. But when he returned to the USSR after the war,…
Memories of WWII Vet Ed McCarron and the Dog Tag He was Recently Reunited With
WWII veteran Ed McCarron got reunited with the dog tag he had lost somewhere in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during the Second World War. Know the…
Goodbye, WWII Codebreaker Sir Arthur Bonsall (1917-2014)
Sir Arthur Bonsall – WWII codebreaker and former head of GCHQ, Bletchley Park’s successor after WWII – passed away last November 26, 2014 at the old…
Soviet spy who gathered intelligence from Japan’s 1945 atomic bomb sites has died at the age of 101
Even though it was the final months of World War Two, the USSR remained vigilant at the prospect of an impending clash with the West.…
Tour de France Heads to D-Day’s Utah Beach in 2016
D-Day’s Utah Beach will be one of the spots in route of the Tour de France this coming 2016. Mont-Saint-Michel, one of the most famous tourist…
Permanent memorial to Britain’s Korean War dead unveiled in London
As veterans from both World Wars dwindle in number, so too are those who took part in the Korean War of 1950-53. Therefore, to ensure…
JRR Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series inspired by real-life World War One experiences
It is little known that the battles of Middle Earth are in fact based and inspired by JRR Tolkien’s own World War One experiences and…
ARTILLERY SCOUT – Review by Mark Barnes
I’ve read a fair number of Great War stories but this is the first one about the experiences of an American soldier to come into…
Christmas Day Truce Centenary Commemorated with Touching Ceremony at No Man’s Land
A poignant ceremony to commemorate the centenary of the Christmas Day Truce, which took place on Christmas Day in 1914 between the British and German troops,…
Actors and Director of “The Hobbit” Have Links to the Great War
Military records reveal that it was not only JRR Tolkien, the author of “The Hobbit”, who has Great War ties; the actors and even director Peter Jackson…
Families pick up torch as Pearl Harbor survivors fade
Four of nine remaining Pearl Harbor survivors gathered this week for a commemoration of the 73rd anniversary of the surprise attack that took the US…
New Hollywood movie ‘Unbroken’ angers Japan nationalists for “incorrect depiction” of POW mistreatment during World War Two
At the age of 97, US POW Louis Zamperini couldn’t have imagined that his war time experience would come back to life, especially not on…