The Laconia Incident: How Friendly Fire Changed POW Treatment for the Rest of the War
The Laconia Incident changed the way Germany treated prisoners of war and was even brought up at the Nuremberg Trials. However, the American prosecutors were…
Aim, Shoot, and Sink the Enemy Fleets – Warship Rising Now on Android and iOS
The eSports first mobile game with 10 vs 10 real-time battles has arrived on Apple App Store and Google Play. 6waves’ Warship Rising offers a…
True Story of a Teenager’s Journey from the Nation’s Capital to the Korean War and Back to Arlington Cemetery
Baritone Books announces its release of “The Battle of Turkey Thicket,” a true story inspired by a simple memorial plaque displayed in a Rehoboth Beach…
How a band of German Pirates Captured 15 Ships During World War 1
On Christmas day, 1916 a Norwegian clipper ship, the Irma, was boarded by the British cruiser, Avenger. There was nothing particularly unusual, the captain spoke…
The Korean War – A Messy Conflict In The 1950s
The Korean War was fought as a result of the Soviet Union moving into what is now North Korea and the United States moving into…
Tommy Prince Was So Quiet, Sometimes Instead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Their Shoes
Tommy Prince was born on October 15th, 1915, in Scanterbury Manitoba Canada in a family of eleven siblings. He left school at an early age…
Military Uniforms That Got Soldiers Killed
These days, when we think about dangerous military uniforms we mean shoddily made body armor or badly colored camouflage. But far more disastrous uniforms have…
Military Technologies Invented In WWI That We Still Use Today
The evolution of military technology is an ongoing process, and breakthroughs in new weapons and defensive systems make the news every year. However, many staples…
Unseen Pictures Of The Biggest Tank Battle of WWII
Following their defeat at Stalingrad during the winter of 1942-43, the German armed forces launched a climactic offensive in the East known as Operation Citadel…
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor – And The Exiled Queen of Holland, The First Female Billionaire
Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria was the longest-serving queen of the Netherlands, having reigned from 1890 to 1948. Her keen business instincts made her the first…
A Valiant Fight To The Death – 62 Against 3000
“These are not men; they are demons!” This was Mexican Colonel Francisco De Paulo Milan’s response when presented with the only French survivors of the…
The Sherman Tank: An American Workhorse
Strength in numbers. This is exactly what the M-4 Sherman tank was good at in its heyday. World War II saw the rise of the…