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VC To Go On Display For First Time Ever

One of only four Victoria Crosses won by tank crews in WW1 will go on public display for the first time on the centenary of…

Tanks For The Memories: The First Ever Tank Commander, by The Tank Museum

The first man ever to command a tank in battle only volunteered for the secret mission because learning to fly aeroplanes was so dangerous, his…

Lenin And Stalin In Safehouse – Latest ‘Revolution 360’ Video Unveiled By RT

RT released its newest 360 video illustrating scenes from Revolutionary Russia, this time featuring revolutionaries Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin hiding out in a safe…

The Evacuation of Gallipoli, The Brilliant End To A Disastrous Campaign

Colin Fraser

To Europeans,  Canadians, and Americans, stories of World War I often focus on the great battles of the Western Front like the Somme, Ypres, Verdun,…

Turning Point of WWII – The Battle of Britain – Part 1

War History Online Presents Part one of the guest Blog from Chris Charland.  The 15th of September 1940 was undoubtedly the decisive turning point in…

The Invasion of Kos: The Killing of 103 Royal Italian Army Officers

War History Online presents a Guest Article by Pietro Giovanni Liuzzi In the early hours of 3rd October 1943, a number of German Naval vessels arrived…

Canadian fighter pilot in WWI ordered to go back to flight school. He didn’t. Instead, he went on to shoot down 72 enemy aircraft

Air Marshal William Avery “Billy” Bishop was a Canadian fighter pilot in WWI who crashed his plane during a practice run and was ordered to…

Battle of the Bulge – A Punch In The Gut

Elaine Smith

Just before The Battle of the Bulge, Allied officers drew an eighty-eight-mile line through the forests, hills, and ravines that make the region called The…

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…

The Night Fighter Ace Who Shot Down 7 Lancaster Bombers In 19 Minutes

Once you know the story of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, it’s pretty hard to forget. Schnaufer was an incredibly skilled pilot. He was arguably the best night…

9 Reasons Why Boudica Almost Beat the Romans

The early Roman Empire was an unstoppable juggernaut of military strength, bending the rest of Europe to its will. Rebellions were mercilessly crushed by one…

Operation Michael: Germany’s Last Chance to Win WWI Before the Americans Arrived

Colin Fraser

By late 1917, the German Empire’s High Command knew they had to turn the war around quickly. Progress against the Allies was slow and they…