History | War History

Stunning Color Footage Of The Battle of the Bulge

Prior to the Battle of the Bulge, a line, 88 miles long, was drawn by Allied officers throughout the Ardennes region. The Ardennes lies in…

Quickly Raising Armies In The English Civil War

By Guest Blogger Jemahl Evans England in the middle of the Seventeenth Century was the most demilitarized nation in Europe. Contemporary accounts claimed that at the…

Mysterious Death Of Rasputin, The Siberian Monk Who Brought Down The Tsar Of Russia

Shahan Russell

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in a remote Siberian village but died in a Russian palace on 30 December 1916. Despite his alleged…

Unexploded Ordnances – Mines, Grenades, And More – A Leftover Threat From WW2

Lincoln Riddle

From landmines to mortars and bombs, unexploded ordnances still pose a danger to those in their vicinity. Even worse, you may not even know what…

From Bombs to Transportation – How Animals Have Been Used in Warfare

Lincoln Riddle

Warfare and animals. They go hand in hand, they always have. In a time when we now have high tech vehicles, bombs that can destroy…

Four Military Operations Which Were Fought In Abominable Weather Conditions

Rain and snow tend to make people stay inside with a nice cup of tea, hot chocolate, or maybe something stronger. As you would expect,…

Three Heroic Last Stands From Military History

The Battle of Thermopylae is the ultimate example of a heroic last stand. The few mighty warriors stood against hundreds of thousands of Persian troops,…

He’s Called The Ghost, Has The Same Medal Count As Audie Murphy, And Is Virtually Unknown

By the time a man earns seven Purple Hearts and lives to talk about it, he could either be described as one of the luckiest…

We Ask If Alexander The Great Was Macedonian, Greek… Or Both

  Right away this title is going to get a wide variety of reactions. Some people are already angry that anyone could say that Alexander…

How Mass Warfare Transformed Nations: Europe’s Military Revolution

Andrew Knighton

Warfare has changed dramatically over the centuries. From small bands defending local communities, it has turned into the clash of vast armies on an industrial…

A Brief History Of The SAS, Britain’s Fighting Elite

Andrew Knighton

Britain’s principal special forces unit, the SAS are perhaps the country’s most famous military unit They are internationally influential experts in special missions. World War…

Operation Nimrod: The SAS Assault on the Iranian Embassy

Andrew Knighton

On 5th May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) stormed the Iranian embassy in London, ending a six-day siege. It was an event that brought…