Nancy Wake: Special Ops Agent And The Gestapo’s Most Wanted
A British Special Ops agent during World War II, Nancy Wake was a wartime beauty, and not a person to be messed with. She was…
10 Facts – Napoleon’s Invasion of Spain
Invading an Ally Before France invaded Spain in October 1807, the two countries were allies. However, Spain was not the reliable ally Napoleon wished for.…
Mary Edwards Walker – The Only Woman Ever To Receive The Medal Of Honor
Early life Mary Edwards Walker was born into a society where strict gender roles controlled the lives of women. However, thanks to the liberal outlook…
9 Ways That Napoleon’s Blockade of Britain Undermined His Own Empire
In 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte launched a blockade of Great Britain. Merchants from the French Empire and its dependencies were no longer allowed to trade with…
Gauls Vs Romans: Two Very Different Ways Of War
When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul in the 1st century BC, two very different schools of war clashed. In some ways, the Gauls and the Romans…
The First Man to Sink a Japanese Warship – The Battle Of Wake Island
Most people believe that although the Japanese succeeded in bombing Pearl Harbor during WWII, they never managed to occupy so much as an inch of American soil,…
Documentary “Ageless Friends” – An Unusual Friendship Between A Dutch Man And An American Soldier From Another Time
It was the fascination of the personal stories from the Second World War that brought him to the American Military Cemetery in Margraten. There, Maarten…
One Of The Last Of The Tuskegee Airmen Has Died Aged 101
The death of Willie N. Rogers, one of the oldest surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, severs another historical connection to the Second World War.…
The Normandy Landings In Color – A Rare Insight (Watch)
The first shot of the Normandy Landings on June 6, 1944, came not from a gun, but from a camera. One George Stevens, a Hollywood…
USCGC Heriberto Hernandez, Named For A Coastguard Hero Who Was Killed In Vietnam
On October 16, 2015, the United States Coast Guard gained a new Cutter. The 154 foot Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutter was named after a…
Edith Cavell: The British Nurse Who Saved 200 Allies And Had A Huge Effect On WW1
Edith Cavell was a British nurse during World War I, with a history that was tragically cut short. Before her execution at the hands of…
The “Kilted Killer” – The Scottish Officer Who Made Almost 20,000 Of The Enemy Surrender
During and after WWII, the Nazis and then the communists were so annoyed by one man they wanted him dead; and not just because he…