SILENT LANDSCAPE AT GALLIPOLI – Book Review
I’ve made the majority of my visits to European battlefields in either the fall or winter when the weather is often not the best. Rain…
Comrade Dora – Brutal Executioner of the Bolshevik CHEKA in Odessa
The 1917-1923 civil war in Russia was an armed struggle for power between representatives of various classes, generally defined as the “Whites” who opposed the Soviet state,…
Unprepared for WAR – Why the Allies’ Heads Were in the Sand
At the start of the Second World War, the Allies found themselves at a huge disadvantage. The Axis powers were ready for war while the…
One Man and a Trumpet Sends Army Running
War broke out in 1912 when the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula decided they had had enough of hundreds of years of Ottoman rule. The…
The Great War – 3 Great Books for History Lovers – Book Review
This is the first of a sequence of round-ups where the WHO Reviews Dept holds a summer clearance of the books I have amassed in…
“Diggers and Doughboys” Highlight September Events at National WWI Museum and Memorial
The opening of a special exhibition exploring the military relationship between the United States and Australia through art, the fourth annual Night at the Tower…
Two Marines, One Aircraft, Two Medals of Honor in WWI
On a cold October day in World War One Europe, two United States Marines took off into the sky for a strike against an enemy…
Masters of Armored Warfare – 6 Historic German Tanks
Though initially slow to adopt tanks, the Germans eventually became masters of armored warfare, with some of the most effective vehicles of the Second World…
Early Drones – Radio Controlled Tanks of the USSR
In 1915, the French designers came up with a self-propelled engineering charge with remote control bearing the name “Torpille Terrestre“. It had a caterpillar mechanism…
WWI Memorial Controversy: Court Refuses to Rehear Case
A forty-foot cross that has stood by a Maryland intersection since 1925 has been ordered to be removed or destroyed by the US Court of…
31 US Presidents Have Served In the Military
Well over 50 percent of the men who’ve served as president of the United States have also seen service in the military – in war,…
50 Years of French Tanks
Renault FT-17 Light Tank Designed in 1916 and first sent into action in 1917, the FT-17 was France’s second ever serving tank. A narrow armored…