Guest blogger Dan Snow – Dunkirk: Day by Day – 29 May 1940
Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On 29 May 1940 – The British are…
George ‘Blood and Guts’ Patton
George Smith Patton Jr was born on the 11th November, 1885, into a family with a long record of military service. He saw action in…
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 10 Henchmen That Served Hitler and the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler’s inner circle were the most powerful men in the Third Reich. It was a finely balanced team of military commanders, administrative leaders and…
‘The Camp Vermont’ – the civil war history of Spring Bank
It is a surprising fact that a civil war camp named Camp Vermont is not in Vermont; it is rather located in the present day…
RAF trained Soviet Pilots in a Secret Mission during WWII
Some of the Soviet airmen who came to Scotland in 1943 to undertake top-secret training at Errol Airfield, including Commander Peter Kolesnikov, front row, left.…
A WW2 Veteran is building his ‘Online Profile’ for the generations to come
[Via] In the recent decades, advancements in science and technology essentially means societies and people have to adhere to new norms in order to keep…
TAKE ME TO FRANCE – Review by Mark Barnes
There is an endless debate in the UK about how so many people from here make little or no effort to learn a foreign language. …
America’s First Victory Against the German Army Was 97 Years Ago Today
By Matthew J. Davenport, author of First Over There:The Attack on Cantigny, America’s First Battle of World War I (St. Martin’s Press, released May 12,…
Guest Blogger Dan Snow – Dunkirk: Day by Day – 28 May 1940
Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On 28 May 1940 the Belgium Army surrenders…
US Senator Howard Cannon remembered for D-Day role as Co-Pilot of a C-47
US Senator Howard Cannon who died recently has found to have played a crucial role as a paratrooper in the D-Day invasion of France during World…
Czech city of Brno remembers death march of Sudenten Germans
[Via] Brno, Czechoslovakia’s second largest city, has commemorated and apologised for a ‘death march’ which took place in the city in May 1945. At the…
Guest Blogger Dan Snow – Dunkirk: Day by Day – 27 May 1940
75 years ago today – Operation Dynamo was underway. However the evacuation at Dunkirk was made increasingly difficult by the German Luftwaffe who pounded Dunkirk…