The Mystery of the Lost Legion: One of the Most Experienced Legions Vanished
What could have happened to the 9th Legion? How could it simply disappear? The fate of the 9th has been the subject of debate for…
The Bunker of the “Beast of Auschwitz” Found in a Convent 70 Years After WWII
Buried thirty feet underneath the ground, in the basement of an old convent in southern Poland, is a room which used to be the secret…
Sex Outside of Marriage: Lebensborn, How Hitler Planned a Master Race
Most of the smaller children were taken away from their parents before they were old enough to comprehend what was even happening. The Third Reich…
America’s Forgotten WWI Hero Who Beat the Germans Bare Handed
With just his fists and his knife, he managed to fend them off, fighting with such fury that the Germans eventually retreated. While the United…
A Savage & Brutal Affair. Hand-To-Hand Combat in WW1
In trench combat, any encounter you had with an enemy soldier was likely to be a life-or-death one. The First World War is notorious for…
Against all Odds-The US Rangers & Their Heroic Assault on Pointe Du Hoc
The Assault on Pointe Du Hoc was one of the most harrowing (and costly) missions in U.S. Army Ranger history. Knowing their mission was crucial…
Amazonian Warriors of the Ancient Worlds
Women warriors of the ancient world Warfare has traditionally been a man’s world. The reasons for this varies historically and culturally but, regardless of time…
Major-General Gubbins-The Man who Made Dirty Warfare a Passion.
During the Second World War, Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) reinvented the art of covert warfare. The organization recruited, trained, and equipped both secret agents…
Does Size Really Matter? – The Big Guns of WW1
The Big Guns-1914 to 1918 World War One was the first industrialized war that was on a truly global scale. With mass production and ever…
General Orde Wingate: Brilliant Eccentric
The British armed forces in WWII were famous for a number of reasons: innovation, unreal stubbornness in defense, and much else. They were also known…
To Do My Duty. The Scout Master & Hitler’s Nuclear Program
In the early twentieth century, a British man named Baden Powell founded the Boy Scout Movement. From this humble organization, Scouting spread across the globe.…
The Tupolev Tu-128: The Largest Fighter Aircraft to Ever be in Service
In the early decades of the Cold War, threats of potential nuclear air attacks were familiar on both sides of the tension. Both the Soviet…