A Five-Foot Finnish Farmer The Deadliest Sniper In History
The White Death became Finland’s (and, arguably, the world’s) most prolific and famous sniper. During the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, he achieved an estimated 500…
Last WWI tank casualty identified – Eric Robinson
The last member of the Tank Corps to be killed in the First World War has been identified – and he died just days before…
Color Footage of Normandy: More Visceral Than Any Hollywood Film
The Allied landing at Normandy in June 1944 was the most ambitious and massive amphibious invasion ever staged. Hundreds of thousands of men from countries…
The SAS Italian Job: Many of those murky events in the spring of 1945 remain governed by secrecy to this day
If you glance through the list of other works by Damien Lewis at the start of the book on offer here, you will see a…
Bought a Tank & Found $2.6 Million in Gold Bullion Inside
Supplying movie and TV crews with tanks for period and wartime dramas is just one of the tasks performed by Tanks-A-Lot, a British company in…
Rick Rescorla: The Vietnam Veteran Who Saved 2,700 Lives on 9/11
The Battle of la Drang Valley was the first major engagement of the Vietnam War. Some 36 years later, the first major battle of the…
Three of the Biggest Military Mistakes in Hollywood Movies
Watching a movie as a military historian means you judge it on a number of levels. In addition to the usual concerns over plot and…
How Reliable Were WWII Pilot Kill Counts?
In the heat of an aerial battle, can you really keep track of how many planes have been shot down? During WWII, intelligence officers believed…
‘Star Trek’ Star James Doohan Survived Six Bullet Wounds During the Allied Landings on D-Day
James Doohan saw action during World War II and in outer space. His exploits inspired many to become an engineer, and one individual even followed…
Virginia Hall The One-Legged Spy Tormented The Nazis & the Most Decorated Female Spy in US History
Virginia Hall was born into a privileged family in Baltimore in 1906. During WWII, she kept the Gestapo at bay and coordinated both Jedburgh teams…
Nerve Gas & Rockets to the Moon: Operation Paperclip & Nazi Scientists in America
Germany surrendered in May 1945. Soon afterward, the western allied powers and the Soviet Union started carving up Europe. Germany was split in two. The…
Leonard A. Funk: U.S. paratrooper who took out 40 Germans in 60 seconds
First Sergeant, Leonard A. Funk, despite his small stature, joined the paratroopers of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army and went on…