THE NEW ARMY IN TRAINING – Review by Mark Barnes
There is something really daft about me reviewing a book by Rudyard Kipling. His writing spoke to millions, although his star is diminished in an…
Hells Highway – 101st Airborne Market Garden Battles South of Veghel (Part 2)
Operation Market Garden, it is September 24th 1944 and we are in the 6th day of the ill fated operation. Earlier that day the Germans…
65 years since the start of the Korean War
The Korean War started in 1950. It started as North Korean tanks made their way across the border into South Korea. The border had been…
Japanese World War Two tunnels revealed
[Via] A secret network of World War Two tunnels built by Japanese troops are giving an insight into what it was like to live and…
World War Two hero V1 Killer pilot’s medals go on sale
The medals of a World War Two hero pilot are being sold off at auction. Joseph Berry was a squadron leader in the Royal Air…
Guest Blogger Geoff Moore: WAR CEMETERY IN YANGON
Although now 70 years ago the often then fierce jungle battles of the Burma campaign are in fact now virtually a lifetime in the past. But…
WATCH: An Extra’s Life – On the set of Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers was a 2001 TV series starring Damian Lewis, and produced by Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks. It is based on a book,…
Hells Highway – 101st Airborne Market Garden Battles South of Veghel (Part 1)
The date is September 24th 1944, Operation Market Garden has dragged on into it’s 6th day and the Germans are about to begin their last…
Vietnam War search for Cambodian “Bamboo Pentagon” headquarters
[Via] The entire Vietnam War is surrounded in controversy, but the attack on Cambodia is one that seemed the most needless and cost thousands of…
Rangers led the way during World War Two
[Via] The US Army’s Rangers section has been in operation since the mid-1700s and during World War Two it was crucial to the success of…
British teenagers caught stealing items from Auschwitz
[Via] Two schoolboys from the UK have been arrested in Poland after they were caught stealing objects from the Auschwitz concentration camp grounds. The two…
8 Low-Tech and Bizarre Tactics and Weapons Used in WWII
The Second World War that is remembered by the Atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud and V2 rockets, it is very hard to imagine that throughout the…