Top 5 Tips for Safely Collecting Inert Ammunition and Ordnance
Like many collecting focusses, militaria collectors with a passion for acquiring inert ammunition have many influences, be they stories from their grandfather’s tales of WW2,…
Hundreds Show Up for Funeral of Family-less WWII Veteran
33-year-old Sgt. Rick Clement was not related in anything to Harold Percival. He never even met the man, not even once. But still, he felt…
George Clooney’s “Monuments Men” Expected in Berlin Film Fest
Recently, Germany and the world witnessed the news about a treasure trove of priceless artworks stashed away in a dingy Munich flat hidden among piles…
Believed to be the Oldest Surviving Poppy from WWI to be Auctioned
It is believed to be the oldest surviving poppy from WWI’s battlefields and now, it has come up to be auctioned…almost 100 years after it…
Top 5 Picks of WW2 Collectable Deactivated Sniper Rifles
THE SNIPER HAS lurked in the shadows of war for over two centuries evolving from paid assassin to the most highly trained of infantryman during…
World War II’s Top Ten Missing Artworks
When Focus, a Germany-based magazine, revealed a few days ago that German authorities found in a dilapidated Munich flat a stash of historic 20th century European…
40 (Plus 1) Fascinating Facts about WWI
When the guns fell silent at 11 AM on what is now known as Armistice Day (November 11, 1918), Private George Edwin Ellison’s name would forever be…
WWII Movie “Stalingrad” Brings Life to Russia’s Film Industry
WWII movie “Stalingrad”, the first ever Russian film in IMAX 3D, has become the country’s highest-grossing picture ever after breaking record sales not just in its…
Dorset’s Tyneham, Left Frozen in WWII Time
Going to Tyneham, a small village in Dorset is like a trip back in time. Seven decades ago, one fateful month in 1943, Tyneham’s…
Bailiwick of Guernsey WWII Memorial Gets Nod
A memorial commemorating the Allied airmen shot down in the Bailiwick of Guernsey during the Second World War was approved and could be built up…
New Churchill Bust Inside US Capitol Unveiled
“Winston Spencer Churchill was the best friend the United States ever had.” This was House Speaker John Boehner’s statement in the unveiling of the new…