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COURAGE WITHOUT GLORY – The British Army on the Western Front 1915 – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

I reviewed the last collection of essays edited by Spencer Jones over a year ago and it remains one of the most impressive reads I…

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

Jack Beckett

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…

5 Successful Missions of a Waffen SS Mastermind, Otto Skorzeny

Otto Skorzeny was one of Germany’s finest commandos. An engineer by profession, he tried to volunteer for the Luftwaffe (German Air Force), in the year…

10 Facts About the Battle of Ia Drang (We Were Soldiers)

Colin Fraser

In 1954, the French decided to draw their struggles in what was once called French Indochina to a close. From then until the end of…

Saint Nazaire Raid: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions

A little after 1:20 AM on March 28th, 1942, searchlights on both sides of the Loire Estuary flooded the waterway to reveal the convoy. Twelve…

Pacific Plane Wrecks, Amazing pictures of Abandoned WWII planes

The Pacific Islands are still littered with plane wrecks from the fighting there. Planes that crash landed on remote locations or sunken in the lagoons…

How Climate Change Helped the Swedes March Across A Frozen Sea And Defeat The Danes

Shahan Russell

It all started in 1655 during the Second Northern War. Sweden was fighting against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Habsburg Monarchy, Denmark-Norway, and sometimes,…

Filipino Veterans Deserve Recognition and Benefits

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a military order that called the organized military forces of the Philippines…

Charge Of The Light Brigade: Britain’s most famous Military Disaster

Andrew Knighton

Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred…

Operation Drumbeat – U-Boat Happy Days On The USA East Coast

The United States of America took a huge blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941, which prompted them join the war alongside  the British. Before that…

Top 10 Facts About SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper

Many men, soldiers, and supporters of Hitler and his politics, helped Germany do the damage it did during World War II. One of those men…

This Diminutive Welshman VC Captured 100 Germans and 500 yards of German Trenches

Jeff Edwards

If the history of war proves one thing it is that the physical stature of a man has little to do with the gallantry they…