Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo – UK Tour: September – November 2018
Following a highly successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful embarks on an exciting West End run and UK Tour. Commemorating the…
CRAZY: The U.S. Nearly Nuked North Korea Over the Captured Spy Ship USS Pueblo
On January 23, 1968, a run-down environmental research ship was conducting oceanographic studies when it was surrounded by North Korean naval forces, which demanded its…
Strange but True: Former Russian Officer Was One of the Union’s Great Leaders in the Civil War
Ivan Turchaninov was born in 1822 in the Don River region of southern Russia, and graduated in 1841 from the Imperial Military School in St.…
Super Weapons That Ended the Reign of Knights
It is without a doubt that weapons, since time immemorial, have the most effective tools in winning wars. In the Medieval Ages, the strength of…
Are Soviet Subs the Best in the World? Let’s Look at the Facts
All countries think that their military equipment is the best in the world, but these three Soviet submarines can undoubtedly lay claim to being the…
Russian War Story Proven to be a Fabrication
War propaganda is rampant wherein the popular imagination is considered, and at least for western audiences, it really is only in recent years that war…
History’s First Tank? The Highly Effective Hussite War Wagon
The Hussite war movement didn’t terrify its opponents solely because it represented a break from the Catholic church: the manner in which the movement went…
Stalin’s Organs – The Iconic “Katyusha” Rocket Launcher with 25 Photos
On July 14, 1941, near a defensive site of the 20th Army in the forest east of Orsha, Captain Ivan Flerov’s battery attacked German positions.…
Battle of Somme: 12 Inches Gained for Every Allied Casualty and Still Debated
Sometimes a war, or a particular battle, can best be understood by examining its statistics – numbers of troops, locations, climates – which can be…
Wheatcroft Collection Update: Includes Finding 8 Sherman Tank Engines
The Wheatcroft Collection in the United Kingdom is a large and important collection of historical softskin and armoured military vehicles. It is one of the largest…
U-Boat Wreckage Found – Crew Claimed They Were Attacked by Sea Monster
All throughout naval history, there have tales of mysterious monsters and other such oddities reaching out from the watery abyss to claim ships and sailors…
Listen to the Only Known Recording of Hitler’s Normal Speaking Voice
Adolf Hitler was a man filled with hate, paranoia, and ludicrous notions of what his country could achieve if it became an international power. But…