How long was the Berlin Wall?
Very few symbols were as poignant in the Cold War between West and the Soviet bloc, as the Berlin Wall. A barrier made out of concrete…
BRITISH TANKS IN NORMANDY – Review by Mark Barnes
A belated review of a book that has been published several times hardly makes this segment of our merry saga cutting edge stuff but this…
Nicholas Winton, the British Schindler: he saved over 600 Jewish Children in Czechoslovakia
Image Courtesy of commons Nicholas Winton is 105 years old and has a long and exciting life behind him, but a special moment turned him…
WWI Artillery Shell Collectors, A Continuing Problem for Eurostar
Monday, May 11, saw the evacuation of Gare du Nord due to one reason – a passenger decided to carry a disarmed artillery shell aboard…
8 most wanted Nazi criminals still at large
Each year since 2001, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center produces an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war…
20 images of Lancaster bombers – seen these?
One of the most iconic planes of the Second World War, the Avro Lancaster. Britains premier four-engined heavy bomber of which over 7,000 were built.…
Fall of Berlin & Red Army’s atrocities
For many in Europe the WWII had ended with the death of the ‘Fuhrer’ and subsequent surrender of German troops. But for those living in…
The only man shot by a DEAD German dies
Raymond Rayner, a World War Two veteran, who was shot by a German who had already died, has himself died at the age of 95.…
The Battle of Midway: A Victory of the Intelligence Services
Military history is dealing mostly with the causes which led to the victory of one of the combatants and not the other, the preconditions that…
Excavation at Waterloo Battlefield unearths Muskets from first shots fired in the Battle
An archeological excavation looking into the battlefield of waterloo has discovered some used ‘Muskets’ that are believed to be from the very first shots fired…
REVIEW: The Hood Battalion, Royal Navy Division
This is, as the title says, a history of the Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division and the book is in its third run. …
Massive Jagdtigers surrender at Iserlohn, Germany, 16 April 1945 (WATCH)
The Herman Jagtiger tank destroyer was the heaviest armored vehicle produced during World War II. It weighed 72 tons and had a 128 mm gun.…