Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Pink Floyd Roger Waters Unveils Memorial To His Father Who Died In WWII

Memorial

His father was killed in the south of Rome, during a fight between the British soldiers and the German forces, seven decades ago. Waters dedicated…

WWI: Secret And Deadly Work Of Girls At Avonmouth’s Mustard Gas Factory

WWI

The top secret mustard gas factory was ruled mostly by women, where the savage chemical weapon, which killed so many soldiers during the First World…

Taita Taveta Open Tourist Sites Where World War I Was Fought Between Germans And The British

Taita Taveta

All the objects and memorabilia were collected from Taita area and exhibited at the First World War museum, opened on Saturday at the hotel. Taita…

Tortured In Notorious ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ 11 GIs Were Unbreakable

Hanoi Hilton

Navy Cmdr. James Bond Stockdale was on a flying mission over North Vietnam on September 9, 1965, when his A-4 Skyhawk took fire and went…

World War II Buffs Gather In Oklahoma For Historic Parachute Jumps

Parachute Jumps

The men used the same tactics and almost the same equipment they used during the Second World War. Part of the team was also WSJ’s…

Recreating The First World War Streets Of Northern England

World War Streets

The exhibition is meant to show the impact that the First World War had on people’s lives in the North West of England. The exhibition…

Clewiston Museum Hosts WWII Boxcar Exhibit

Clewiston Museum

It is currently part of an exhibition at the Clewiston Museum. While the old paint on the wood of the boxcar is still there, the…

WWI Raid On Zeebrugge

Raid On Zeebrugge

Although the end of the First World War was close, with only a few months left of it, the Germans did not seem to want…

Search Is On For Hitler’s Secret Atom-Bomb Lab Under Death Camp

Atom Bomb

If they succeed in finding the hidden lab, it would finally show us how close the Nazi came to creating a nuclear weapon and maybe…

Scottish Scoutmaster Saved Hundreds Of Lives From German Snipers In World War I

Scottish Scoutmaster

He was part of one of the first troops in Scotland and after leaving the Army, he went back later on and was brave enough…

Fear, Death And Futility: The Hell Of WWI Trench Warfare

Trench

The front line did not even seem to move, while millions of soldiers were dying in trenches in horrible conditions, no mattered whether they were…

US Army Take Over County As They Prepare For D-Day

D-Day

June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, meant  ‘the beginning of the end’ of the Second World War and it was the biggest seaborne invasion…