Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo – UK Tour: September – November 2018
Following a highly successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful embarks on an exciting West End run and UK Tour. Commemorating the…
U-Boat Wreckage Found – Crew Claimed They Were Attacked by Sea Monster
All throughout naval history, there have tales of mysterious monsters and other such oddities reaching out from the watery abyss to claim ships and sailors…
All-female War Drama – “Square Rounds” from Tony Harrison
Proud Haddock, in association with the Finborough Theatre, present Tony Harrison’s all-female war drama “Square Rounds” Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED 4th…
14 Early British Tanks – After “Little Willie” the Names Got Better
As the inventors of the first tanks, the British produced many early influential fighting vehicles. Little Willie In 1915, the British government set up the…
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…