Sudden Strike 4: European Battlefields – The Ultimate Strategy Experience Arrives On Xbox One
Value-packed special edition of Sudden Strike 4 includes DLC add-ons and exclusive maps Kalypso Media is excited to announce that its WW2 strategy hit Sudden…
Tough Reading – A Nightmarish Place: The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp
The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp lies just North of Linz, in Austria. It was one of the first large concentration camps created in Nazi Germany and…
From The Tank Museum: Joe Ekins – One of the Most Famous WWII British Tank Gunners
Joe Ekins remains one of the most famous WWII British tank gunners for taking down three Tiger tanks with five shots, including that of Nazi…
Battle of Agincourt – The English Really Should Have Lost, But They Won
The Battle of Agincourt is an iconic moment in English military history. On 25 October 1415, an army of English raiders under Henry V faced…
Warrior Frank Baldwin Received Two Medals of Honor, One for Fighting the Confederates & Another for Fighting the Indians
Receiving the Medal of Honor for valor in combat puts one in the hallowed company of but a few thousand individuals to ever grace the…
Heroes in the Wreckage: The mixed crew of Canadian, British and Australians had taken the Fortress out on a test-flight, trying to work out the kinks in a new navigation system
It was two hours from midnight, March 26th, 1943, when two cottage residents, Albert and Vera French, heard the crash. They immediately rushed from the…
The Russian KV Tank and Its Crew That Stopped The German Advance for a Full Day
On June 22, 1941, Germany and the Axis powers commenced Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union along a 2,900 km front with a…
The Dawn Of The Submarine: German U-9 Sank 3 British Cruisers in 90 Minutes, 22 September 1914
There are many unflattering labels to apply to the disastrous events in the North Sea early in the morning of September 22nd, 1914. Certainly, for…
Fat blocks from a ship sunk by Luftwaffe float ashore in Scotland ‘still looks & smells good enough to have a fry up with.”
For many people around the world, the years of the Second World War were marked by both periods of perfect tranquility, and periods of sudden…
He’s Called The Ghost, Has The Same Medal Count As Audie Murphy, And Is Virtually Unknown
By the time a man earns seven Purple Hearts and lives to talk about it, he could either be described as one of the luckiest…
Two Years Before Filming It’s a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart was Bombing the Daylights Out of Nazi Germany
Every year when the Christmas season rolls around, the classic film of a Banker, who wishes he had never been born and an angel who…
Germany’s WWI Albatros D. Fighter Planes – The Mainstay of German Air Power in World War One
The Albatros D. Fighters were a mainstay of German air power during WWI. Four Models During the fast-changing aerial warfare of WWI, what made for…