Jack Beckett

Jack Beckett has been editor since 2012. Huge fan of war history and rural history and a motorbike rider.

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Articles by Jack Beckett:

40 images of captured Sherman tanks in German hands!

During World War II, captured soldiers became POW s (Prisoners of War) and were detained in camps. But what happened to captured equipment, such as…

Another Battle of Thermopylae? New evidence details Greek Stand against the Goths in the 3rd Century CE

Ancient history covers an incredibly vast span of time. We know the specific details of only a small percentage of the battles fought during this…

The Night Attack – Vlad the Impaler ambushes the Ottoman Sultan

Mehmet II, known as Mehmet the Conqueror, was one of the greatest military commanders of his day. The Ottoman Empire under his rule was vast,…

DIDN’T KNOW THIS!! Kept secret throughout the war, US naval base at Ulithi was for a time the world’s largest naval facility

On March 1945, the largest convoy of US Navy ships and personnel sailed from a base in the Pacific Ocean. Where was this base? This…

Sappers and Siege engines – Ivan the Terrible Conquers The city of Kazan

The army had been in place under the city walls for weeks. Ivan the Fourth, Tsar of all the Russians, accompanied his force in the…

How Holy Geese Saved the Republic During The First Sack of Rome (390 BCE)

Rome is often viewed in a few set periods. The Fledgling founding by Romulus, the Punic Wars, the Civil wars and Empire, and finally the…

Mosquito: The Best Warbird of WWII – in Color

Undoubtedly the best aircraft of its time. Many will, of course, argue the point, and that’s understandable, we all have our favourites, but the De Havilland…

The beginning of the end for the Teutonic Knights, Grunwald 1410

For more than two hundred years the might of the Order of Teutonic Knights had been steadily growing. It was forged in 1190, in the…

Black Hawk Down: The amazing & sad story of the MoH recipients – the 1st since the Vietnam war.

The situation was grim on the afternoon of October 3rd, 1993. Things had been wrong from the beginning – what was supposed to have been…

Rommel’s Last Battle in North-Africa – Costly Failure At Medenine

The hot Tunisian sun beat down on the steel of tanks and armoured personnel carriers, planes strafed the artillery positions and the tracks of tanks…

Boudica’s uprising: A fearsome challenge to the might of Ancient Rome

The coastal county of Norfolk in the south-east of England is a peaceful place. Little villages are scattered throughout a patchwork of fertile fields and…

A Rough Guide of the Costs of Guns During WWII

We know that millions of weapons were made during WWII – but do we know the cost of their production? This isn’t a bulletproof guide,…