Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Soviet Red Army: The War after The War

For many years after the war ended, it felt like Germans and especially those from Berlin, avoided discussing the events that followed the deadly battles,…

Why Should Former Nazi Guards Face Trial Today?

It must have been a surprise for the Nazi party to find out that they have lost the war. Even the thought of that happening…

Compromising History Documents Turn Out To Be Fake

The royal family used to work with secret British agents to create a bond between England and the Nazi, while the Duke of Windsor would…

The man who spared Hitler and could have changed the course of history

Henry Tandey was the man that Hitler believed saved his life when he was fighting wounded on the war front. This was to be the…

Former WWII pilot returns for the final time to Tibenham Airfield (UK)

For the past 17 years, Chuck Walker found himself traveling over 150,000 miles to see for the last time the Tibenham Airfield and remember those…

John Evans: The England cricketer who escaped from two prisoner of war camps

In September 1914, only a month after war had been started, British cricketers put their bats and balls aside. A number of approximately 200 had…

Hitler’s Degenerate Art Exhibition reminiscences found in a flat in Munich. But why no love for the modernists?

This week, a stash of “degenerate” art has been found in an apartment in Munich. We raise up a hugely considered question. Why was there…

Crew of B-24 that crashed on village of Graveston finally gets a monument

The Garveston memorial team concluded that the crash occurred when 1st Lt. Raymond Sachtleben tried to avoid a midair collision. For decades after, nobody knew who…

WWII Hero Honored At Front Yard Flag Raising Ceremony

Dilts can consider himself quite a lucky guy. Surrounded by a loving companion, three daughters, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren, he enjoyed his celebration…

WWII Former Amtracker Lives to Tell the Story of 2,000 rescued POW

Pete Gleich was only 18 years old when he enlisted and 20 years old when the Los Banos Rescue marked his ‘day to remember’. 66…

The Quest: Six Decades of Searching for the MIA

It was on a warm spring in 2008 and on board of a huge barge in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, casually camouflaged in…

Ray Gelinne – Battle Of The Bulge

“Is hot that gun many times” says Ray Gelinne, now 98 years old, while unfolding his WWII life as an army soldier. During the early…