Top Picks of WW1 British Tommy Militaria
COLLECTORS KNOW that Great War relics are considered special not only because they bear witness to the first total war, but because in many cases…
Photographer Captures the Legacy of the 700,000 Bunkers in Albania
Albania is home to over 700,000 bunkers – one for every four Albanians. These bunkers are a legacy left by the Communist dictator of Albania,…
DVD: STALINGRAD 1942-43 – Review by Phil Hodges
Here we have another film documentary from the German Propaganda Kompanien (PK) told in the newsreel style of the Die Deutsche Wochenschau, the weekly cinema newsreel chronicling…
Angela Merkel Turns Down Request to Accompany Chinese President on Memorial Tour
According to a report, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned down Chinese President Xi Jinping’s request to accompany him on his visit to Germany’s Holocaust…
Original WWI Posters Discovered in an Attic
A rare collection of nearly every original WWI recruitment posted has recently been discovered after the collection has been hidden away in an attic for…
Hundreds of Brothers Killed While Fighting in the First World War
If you ask any parent what is something they fear the most, they would say the loss of a child. The loss of a child…
Auschwitz Survivor Baffled By Bottle Message
The message was found this week at Auschwitz, by a group of workers, who were demolishing a wall. The wall used to be part of…
BEYOND THE REACH OF EMPIRE – Wolseley’s Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum. Review by Mark Barnes
When his comrades were, at last, able to recover his body; they found him with a smile on his face. Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was…
First World War: Losing One Child In War Is A Terrible Thing, So Just Imagine Losing Five
There is nothing more painful for a parent than to lose a child. One couldn’t even imagine losing more than one child, as occurred to…
Research Reveals Majority of Britons Know Little about WWI
UK – A recent report showed that only a measly few Britons knew that the First World War happened beyond the Western Front, that is…
Inside the Cold War Bunkers of Birmingham
1953 – When the growing fear of another incoming war was too much to bear, a network of Cold War tunnels was constructed beneath the British…
Sochi and the Second World War
Sochi, this year’s Winter Olympics capital, had never seen action during WWII but it had been a soldier’s refuge with over half-a-million wounded treated in…