A Turning Point In The Life Of Musashi, The Undefeated Samurai
Miyamoto Musashi was three hours late. This was his way. On the beach the tension in the air was palpable. Sasaki Kojiro paced up and…
General “The Auk” Auchinleck Squared Off With The Desert Fox In North Africa Before Being Fired by Churchill
The dismissal of officers in World War 2 was quite a common practice for every army that fought in the war. Whether or not these…
Kaiten: The Japanese Suicide Submarines in WWII
During the last months of World War II, as the Japanese were becoming desperate, they turned to a new kind of weapon. While it incorporated…
Salon Kitty: The WWII Spy Ring Based in a Brothel – Heydrich needed to hire top-notch prostitutes
During the peak of the Nazi regime, the Sicherheitsdienst was the Third Reich’s version of the CIA. Founded in 1932, the first leader of the…
Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I – Review By Stuart McClung
World War I on the Western Front can mostly be described as an exercise in futility. Once the initial 1914 German offensive through Belgium and…
Operation Werewolf: The Nazi Resistance an elite group of military men behind enemy lines, to operate secretly, using guerrilla tactics
In the Autumn of 1944, the Nazis instigated a plan to establish active forces behind enemy lines as the Allies pushed through Germany. It was called…
When He Ran Out Of Grenades He Started Throwing Empty Beer Bottles And Was Awarded The Victoria Cross
War tends to favor those with initiative and ingenuity and for Victoria Cross recipient Bill Speakman, he would evidently possess both. Some might think when…
How the Schlieffen Plan Failed
Military plans are seldom famous in themselves. The battles are remembered but not the schemes that led to them. One notable exception is the Schlieffen…
Two Years Before Filming It’s a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart was Bombing the Daylights Out of 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…
The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We’ll Not Leave The Fortress”
Brest Fortress and the town of Brest are located in modern day Belarus. In 1939 the town was conquered by the Germans during the invasion…
To Make Life Easier For The People Of Occupied Crete, The Allies Kidnapped The Nazi Commander
The Special Operation Executive (SOE) in 1944, planned to conduct a daring mission in Crete. Their initial plan was to kidnap the German commander of…
Operation Urgent Fury: The 1983 US Invasion of Grenada
In 1983, the Cold War was rather hot: Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States and the relations between East and West deteriorated.…