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These Full Color Pictures of the Atlantic Wall Will Blow Your Mind!

The Atlantic Wall went down in history as the main defense line of the Atlantic coast in then-occupied Europe.  A network of bunkers and fortified…

Re-enactment Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive – Russian Style!

The Petsamo-Kirkenses Offensive was referred to as the “Tenth Shock,” one of the most important military operations lead by Red Army in 1944. The term “Stalin’s…

Warbird Factory

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WARBIRD FACTORY - Review by Mark Barnes

Explore the WWII history of the company that later became a part of Boeing and made more aircraft from 1938 to 1944 than any other…

The Tangier Archive – Review By Mark Barnes

I have worked at the same photographic archive for nearly three decades and even after all this time there is an awful lot of material…

The Great War No Image Could Capture

Ian Harvey

There is this picture, now housed by the Imperial War Museum, that has been taken in September 1916, following the end of the Battle of…

Forbidden WWI Photographs Layout The First Year of Battle

Andrew Davidson of the Telegraph tells the story of his grandfather, Fred Davidson and his time as a WWI Doctor. Fred passed down three photographic…

Haunting photographs of the battlefields of the War to end all wars- Exhibition at Westminster Hall

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Soldier’s helmet left on the cross of the grave at the Chalons-en-Champagne, France battleground burial site memorial; in…