From The Holocaust to Hogan’s Heroes
When Clary eventually ended up at Buchenwald, one of the most horrific of the Nazi concentration camps, he sang for SS soldiers. Though it first…
Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners-Book Review By Mark Barnes.
Men like Churchill and Lloyd George felt bound to get involved in a battle of ideologies because of their convictions and prejudices as they continued…
Handheld For Victory-10 Infantry Weapons of WW2
During World War II, the US produced more than 1.5 million Thompson submachine guns. The Second World War was the largest, most destructive and bloodiest…
A Pagan Crusade-The Franco-Mongolian Alliance
How could the Crusaders possibly justify working with people of a different religion? Many Europeans today remember the Mongols as a existential threat to Europe,…
How Britain Turned Back The Clock Against Luftwaffe
It was devised as a way to save coal during the First World War. The concept of time has intrigued humanity as far back as…
The Auld Alliance -Scotland The Brave
The Scottish took full advantage of this situation. By the end of the year they had retaken almost all of their land and even raided…
Bounty Jumpers: Con-Men Paid to Enlist then Desert
They say that there is always someone who will make money out of a war and the Civil War was no exception. One of the…
The Irony – Nobel Peace Prize nominees included Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded yearly since 1901 with only 19 instances of no prize being awarded. The winner is determined by the…
WWII Snipers & The Rifles They Used To Rack Up Huge Scores
While snipers were widely deployed by most of the various nations involved in the Second World War, no army really developed or produced a rifle…
Massive Jagdtigers Were Almost Invincible On The Battlefield: The Problem Was Getting Them There
Throughout the Second World War, Hitler had had an almost myopic preoccupation – some might say obsession – with trying to win the war by…
Commandant of Auschwitz, Was an Affectionate Dad Hugged & Kissed His Kids Before Going to Work
“When in the summer of 1941, Hitler gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminations could take place, and personally to…
Stolen by The Nazis a Painting of Ivan The Terrible Returned to Museum
David Tracy bought a house in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1987 and was delighted to discover that the previous owners had left behind a keepsake –…