Bounty Jumpers: Con-Men Paid to Enlist then Desert
They say that there is always someone who will make money out of a war and the Civil War was no exception. One of the…
Massive Jagdtigers Were Almost Invincible On The Battlefield: The Problem Was Getting Them There
Throughout the Second World War, Hitler had had an almost myopic preoccupation – some might say obsession – with trying to win the war by…
Commandant of Auschwitz, Was an Affectionate Dad Hugged & Kissed His Kids Before Going to Work
“When in the summer of 1941, Hitler gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminations could take place, and personally to…
The 16-Year-Old WWI Officer Who Led His Men Over The Top, Lost A Leg, Still Insisted On Returning To Fight
It is a well-documented fact that many underage boys, some as young as 13, fought in the trenches of the First World War. Usually, these…
An Artist Who Became The USSR’s Most Lethal Sniper Dispatched Over 500 Germans
Usually artists are associated with pacifism and anti-war sentiments. There are, of course, always exceptions to such stereotypes – Adolf Hitler is probably the most…
Hitler’s Plans for a New World Order After His Victory in WW2
The Man in the High Castle is a popular Amazon TV series based on the novels bearing the same name by Philip K. Dick. In…
The Concentration Camp in Italy – Servigliano Camp 59
Although the concentration camps in Germany are well documented, the camps in Italy are not so well known. One reason for this is that although…
Tarawa Veteran Sees Picture of The Man Who Saved His Life 70 Years Ago
“Semper Fidelis” Men were floating in the water, some wounded and screaming, others already dead. Scanning the carnage, Dean Ladd wondered how long his luck…
How an Outdated Biplane, Took Out the Gigantic Battleship Bismarck
The Second World War was a period of greatly accelerated development in the field of aviation: this was the first war in which jet fighters…
A Strange Story From The Civil War: There in McLean’s parlor, Grant & Lee Hashed Out The Surrender
The American Civil War threatened to rip the nation apart and created rifts that in some ways have not healed. For four years the nation…
Total Warrior Was Awarded The Victoria Cross TWICE – An Incredible Human Being
Since its inception, the VC has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 men. And no, there is not a typing error in that sentence. Three…
Battle Of Saipan Suicides: The Largest Banzai Charge of the Entire War, 4000 Japanese Troops
War inevitably equals mass casualties, whether numbering in the dozens or the hundreds, or the hundreds of thousands – this a truth that has accompanied…