Gandhi’s Letters to Adolf Hitler
Mahatma Gandhi believed he could achieve his objectives through non-violent means. Adolf Hitler believed in the exercise of military might and the power of rhetoric.…
Forging, then Forgetting, – The Alliance Between Serbia and France in WWI
On the banks of the Danube and Sava rivers stands a statue of a woman, her hands balled into fists, underneath which a plaque contains…
WOW! High School Football Game Stopped Because US student Wanted To Thank World War Two Veterans
A student from a Louisiana high school stopped a game of football at the school because he wanted to thank the World War Two veterans…
‘It made me a wiser person’ Marine Corps veteran discusses lessons from service during Vietnam War
By Jeremy P. Ämick While attending Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., in the fall of 1965, Ron Saucier and a group of friends decided…
New York suburb reveals its Nazi past through discriminatory housing bylaws requiring that homeowners have German ancestry
The 1930s was a decade that saw the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany. In the small suburb of Yaphank, NY,…
The Vickers Light MKVI B – Quite Useless As A Fighting Tank
The first mass-produced British tank. Being, in terms of numbers, the most significant British tank at the outbreak of war, the Mark VIB saw service…
The North Korean Mystery Town In The Demilitarized Zone
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea has long become synonymous with the battle between east and west. However, a mystery town has…
37 beautiful, sad but touching colourised images of WWII
Many thanks go to Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colourisation. The beauty of these colourised images is that colour, allows you…
10 Things You Never Knew About WWII
Everyone learns about World War II from their high school history classes. It’s inevitable. Hitler’s tyranny, the Holocaust, the attack on Pearl Harbor; these events…
You Got To See This: 5 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Fighters Fly In Formation!
Listen to the sound of freedom as 5 restored P-47 Thunderbolt Fighters take to the skies at the 2005 Planes of Fame Museum airshow at Chino, California.…
The Heroic German Officer Who Gave His Life Trying to Save an American in a Minefield
October 7, 1994, saw a strange sight over the Hürtgen War Cemetery in Hürtgen, Germany. The cemetery is the final home of 3001 bodies –…
The sniper who managed to kill an enemy with a half-mile sniper shot which curved 56 feet (17 m.) in the air before hitting the target
Corporal Matt Hughes, a crack shot with the Royal Marines, was ordered to take out an Iraqi who was holding back an important advance during…