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The Much-Reviled Sir Douglas Haig May Have Been The Best Man For a Terrible Job

Lieutenant George: Great Scott sir, you mean, you mean the moment’s finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a darned good British style thrashing,…

The Response From Overseas To The American Civil War

By the beginning of the American Civil War, the United States was a little more than 50 years of age. They had started to develop relationships…

Powerful Orders Of Medieval Knights And What Made Each One Distinct

Andrew Knighton

Combining knightly warfare and a monastic lifestyle, the knightly crusading orders were one of the strongest institutions of medieval Europe. Through them, men sought a…

Liquid Fire – How Napalm Was Used In The Vietnam War

The First World War introduced many new weapons to the world of warfare. The first global mechanized war saw the first use of tanks and…

Stunning Must See Video Of A Dakota AC-47 T, Acting As Lethal Spooky Killer

War History Online Presents this Guest Article By Author and Blogger Hans Wiesman – Check Out His Website! In this Dakota Hunter Blog post, you’ll…

Ham & Jam – The Daring Glider Operation To Take Pegasus Bridge

On the night before D-Day, as part of the Allied invasion of Normandy, 181 men of the Glider Infantry of the British 6th Airborne Division…

The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We Won’t 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…

The Weapons They Carried: Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to World War Two

Colin Fraser

Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…

The Day That The USA Invaded Russia And Fought The Red Army

The US Armed Forces and the Red Army, although great rivals, only once met in battle. Even though during the Cold War a number of…

When Four Prisoners Escaped From Auschwitz In The Kommander’s Car

In 1942, four Polish prisoners at Auschwitz had had enough. They wanted to escape, but if they did (regardless of whether or not they succeeded),…

Abdul Hafiz, The Indian Muslim Recipient of the Victoria Cross, Killed Aged 18

Jeff Edwards

In the modern era, the age of 18 is often considered the point at which one is expected to branch out from the home and…

The Evacuation of Dunkirk, The Evacuation That Kept Britain’s Hopes Of Victory Alive

Colin Fraser

The events of May and early June 1940 were equal parts disaster and Miracle. For France, it was a complete disaster – a total military defeat by…