When Malaria Sided With Napoleon: The Doomed British Walcheren Expedition That Cost 4,000 Lives
The British expedition sent to Walcheren in the Netherlands in 1809 was one of the boldest moves of the Napoleonic wars. Unfortunately for the soldiers…
The Russian Who Refused To Launch Nuclear Missiles During The Cuban Missile Crisis – He Saved The World
The fact that you can read this is because of a man who said “no” due to an accident. In doing so, he literally saved the world.…
The Dentist Who Died In A Japanese Banzai Attack on Saipan But He Took Over 100 Enemy Soldiers With Him
Many humans worldwide fear going to the Dentist for pretty obvious reasons: The pain, the worry that you’ll have to get a cavity filled, and…
Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, The Architect Of The Sneak Attack On Pearl Harbor
The man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was an unusual and contradictory figure. A man with peaceful international connections around…
Commander Rudder (2nd Rangers) 10 years later – I Took My Son to Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach
FROM HISTORIES OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS PREPARED BY THE ARMY HISTORICAL DIVISION. – By W. C. HEINZ Thank you to our friends at OldMagazineArticles.com for…
“The Great War Illustrated – 1916” – Review by Mark Barnes
I am really pleased to see the third volume in this exemplary series from Messrs Langford and Holroyd. There have been countless photo archive books…
The Weapons They Carried: Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial In World War Two
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 Philadelphia Experiment: The US Navy’s Secret Invisibility Research Program
What kind of technologies do the governments and militaries of the world possess? What highly classified project have the public been blissfully unaware of? Anti-gravity?…
Enemies Within And Without – Caligula, Arminius and Vercingetorix – Most Hated Men Of Ancient Rome
If you haven’t seen the first post covering the Roman Republic, here it is. Rome hated a lot of people over the thousands of years…
Then And Now: Iconic Battlefields of WWII
After just over 70 years, we look back at 11 iconic locations of the Second World War as they were then – and as they are…
Resistance Without Hope In The Face Of Destruction – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
Life in a Ghetto was the unfortunate fate of many Jewish citizens during the Nazi Party’s reign over Germany and its many occupied territories. Crammed…
The Rogue Nazi General Who Committed High Treason To Stop The Reign of Terror in Croatia
Many heroes’ names line the pages of WWII history. Many of these men and women were not recognized and known to the public during their lifetimes…