Guide Map of Lawrence of Arabia In Arab Revolt Against Ottoman Empire to be Auctioned, Set Price at £100,000
The only guide map, which according to experts, that Lawrence of Arabia sketched himself and depicted his famous journey in the Arabian desert between the…
Soviet WWII Veteran Celebrates One Hundredth Birthday
Ilia Starodubsky, better known as Ilia Stark, is a Soviet WWII veteran with a very accomplished career. After his service, he made his living in…
Reunion Held for Survivors of Great Escape
The “Great Escape” is one of the most well-known escape attempts of all time. Perpetuated by POWs detained in StalagLuft III during the Second World…
Operation Against Nazi General in Crete
In 1943, the war was only a couple of years from meeting its end. A Nazi general in Crete became the target of the Special…
How Everyday Citizens Viewed the Great War
The First World War, also known as the Great War, affected more or less everyone in the world. Even far from the battlefields, people found…
Germany: Mass Evacuation Imposed in the Discovery of Unexploded British WWII Bomb
Hanover, Germany – A mass evacuation for about 14,000 people – including residents from three nursing facilities – had to be carried out in the dead of…
Last Hindenburg Survivor Dies of Heart Failure
The last confirmed Hindenburg survivor has now passed away. Werner Franz was just fourteen years of age and working as a cabin boy when he…
RAF Airman Honors Hero from WWI
John Nichol is a modern-day RAF airman who has dedicated a great deal of his life as an aviator to honoring a pilot who flew…
Claude Monet Landscape PaintingFound in the Munich Art Hoard
A Claude Monet landscape painting recently turned up from the art hoard discovered in a dinghy Munich flat last 2012. The trove of valuable artworks…
The First Canadian Losses of WWII
The first Canadian losses of the Second World War did not take place where or when most people would have expected. Rather than taking place…
‘Stolen’ WWII Plaque Returned to RAF Base
Correction: It has come to the attention of WHO that the writer mistook RAF Brize Norton for a man rather than a Royal Air Force…
Gasthaus zur Pommer, Hitler’s Birthplace, to be Converted Into a Museum Dedicated to His Crimes
The Austrian government is set to convert Gasthaus zur Pommer, the former pub where the notorious German dictator Adolf Hitler was born, into a ‘House…