LOYAL SONS – Review by Israel Schwierz
One year after the appearance of his first book; “Loyalty Betrayed. Jewish Chaplains in the German Army in the First World War” the physician and…
Ready to cry? He saved 669 children during the holocaust…he doesn’t know they’re sitting next to him.
Hundreds of people who were rescued as children by a man described as “Britain’s Oskar Schindler” gathered together to attend a special service in honor…
Richard Blyth pays a tribute to his fellow colleagues whom he lost in the war of Walcheren during Second World War:
88 years old veteran soldier Richard Blyth talks about his experiences of allied invasion of Holland. There he was a part of the Combined Operation…
Mel Gibson, Andrew Garfield Set to Work on Upcoming WWII Film
Oscar-winning director and actor Mel Gibson will reportedly work with The Amazing Spiderman actor Andrew Garfield on upcoming WWII film about war vet Desmond T. Doss, the…
A Pair of Firsts?
Archibald Ashmore KcKellar. His name may not be familiar to many people nowadays. Seventy-five years ago, his was one of the most recognised names in…
Frontline World War II photo album found
While serving in WWII, Frank Tomlinson, a Royal Artillery soldier with the 74th Field Regiment, took over 1000 photos chronicling his life on the front…
WIND IN THE WIRES – Review by Mark Barnes
The gathering pace of events surrounding the centenary of the Great War have coincided with some difficult times in my world and, as a consequence,…
Dorothy Lincoln ‘Wrens’: The Cryptologist
89 years old Edmonton lady, Dorothy Lincoln, earlier known as Dorothy Winifred Shiers is among the hundreds of young women who joined the Second World…
Cold War photograph collection
Martin Roemers is a Dutch photographer who grew up with the Cold War, which lasted from the late 1940’s into the early 1990’s. He heard…
OPERATION STORM – Review by Mark Barnes
We’re getting near the time of year when I have been asked to produce a ‘books of the year’ feature. This one is just in…
Top secret naval communications base sold
Criggion Station was a top-secret naval communications base that was built in 1943 in Wales and used during both WWII and the Cold War. During…
Six Months – Three Canadian Brothers – all killed in WWII
The Second World War took the lives of many young men who served in the military. But for the Wagner family, the loss was simply…