Ian Harvey

Ian Harvey is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Nuremberg rally ground where the Nazi’s held their annual parades may be renovated

Calls to have the Nuremberg rally ground restored and made into a permanent memorial and reminder of the evil of Nazism have been raised by…

Vietnam War Hero Shares His Story

Former Marine first lieutenant and Vietnam War vet survived 40 surgeries and lost one eye and his left arm, which made him suffer from mental…

Josef Mengele – Nazi’s Angel of Death

Josef Mengele  got his nickname the ‘angel of death’ because of his disturbing fascination with human experiments, which he conducted on a mass scale at…

Seventy-year old letter written on Nazi stationery is kept for posterity

For the first time in the history of the Jewish community an American Jewish soldier got a hold of Adolf Hitler’s stationery. It was during…

World War II Pilot Reunited with his P-47 Thunderbold, 71 Years Later

When they told WW II pilot Charlie Screws that they had located the tail- fin from the Thunderbolt P-47 that he flew in the war, he…

Jim Martin, a veteran 101st Airborne paratrooper tells his story, personally on Facebook

To celebrate the D-Day anniversary in Normandy, France, 93 year-old veteran paratrooper Jim Martin once again did a parachute jump over Normandy. Mr. Martin served…

African American Civil War contingent suffered unrivalled hardships

Over 100,000 African American troops formed part of the Union Army during the American Civil War from 1861-65. Most fought with the Unionists to put…

Holocaust memorial ‘stumbling stones’ may return to Munich

As part of the nationwide Holocaust memorial in Germany, a scheme was started in 1996 by a German artist who created a series of ‘stumbling…

US Cold War nuclear missile bunker up for sale

A Cold War era nuclear missile bunker in Roswell, New Mexico has been put up for sale. Jim Moore, the estate agent responsible for marketing…

Rudolf Hoess – Nazi mass murderer

Rudolf Hoess was one of the Nazi’s top SS commanders and commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two. Today, his grandson has now…

How the seven dwarfs of Auschwitz fell under the spell of Dr Death

May 19, 1944 – When Perla Ovitz and her family were lifted off the train shortly after arriving in Auschwitz that fateful Friday; the SS…

Movie review: American Sniper

The movie American Sniper is based on the true life events of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. American Sniper is directed by Clint Eastwood and the…