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Charge the Eastern Front in ‘Tannenberg’- The Authentic WW1 Game Series Expands To A New Theater

Tannenberg, the new game from the two studios behind Verdun – Blackmill Games and M2H – enters open beta via Steam Early Access! Tannenberg is…

Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 & Then Went On a Rampage

They say that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But if you take her love away, it gets a helluva lot worse –…

The Fall of the Aztecs, The Bloody Path to Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan was an absolutely amazing city. The city was larger than any in Europe at the time and held approximately 200,000 people with some estimates…

Breaking The Deadlock – Machine Gun Tactics of WWI

The machine-gun was possibly the most valuable weapon in defining the fighting of WWI. Its massive firepower devastated infantry formations and virtually eradicated the use…

Landmines From The Battle of El Alamein Are Still Claiming Lives Today

Ian Harvey

The Battle of El Alamein was a critical battle in World War II which heralded the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime. Though…

The Greatest Underdog Victories in Pre-Gunpowder Battles

Ancient and Medieval generals were often smart enough to avoid battle against a much larger force but throughout history there are many cases where much…

The Battle of Pliska – a Byzantine military disaster

Andrew Knighton

Though they clung to the name of the Roman Empire, the Byzantines never achieved the glory of their predecessors. Theirs was an empire in slow…

Up The Wooden Hill – The Tale of Two Families – By Jill Schaefer

“Up The Wooden Hill” is a historical memoir by Jill Schaefer about growing up in England and Germany before, during and after World War II,…

The Female Allied Spy Was Condemned To Death By The Germans – In The End They Gave Her The Iron Cross

During WWI, the German government condemned a woman to death for spying on them. Fortunately for her, they commuted her sentence when they realized they…

The Battle of Arsuf – To Win the Day, One Man Must Defy His Own King

Malcolm Higgins

Beneath the relentless beating of the midday sun, under a seemingly endless rain of arrows, The Grand Master’s patience had all but run out. Garnier…

Bombing Germany: The Allied Campaign 1940-44

In any time of ‘total war’ human beings, driven by the will to stay alive, will do un-imaginable things of one kind or another. War…

Single Combat At The Siege of Bayonne, 1131AD

Jack Beckett

Pedro de Lara was bored. His had lived a full life, a life of personal pride and skill at arms, of politics, wine and of…