5 Sopwith Fighter Planes in Over 35 Images
The Sopwith Aviation Company was one of the most important manufacturers of fighter planes in the First World War. The company created some of Britain’s…
Category: WORLD WAR I
The Red Baron’s “other” Planes Yes He Had More Than Just One Fokker
Though more than 100 years have passed and his record of aerial success was surpassed in WWII, to this day the flying ace that virtually…
The Fighting Escadrille Lafayette – Hamilton’s The Community House to honor heroes of WWI
Civilization likes to lionize men who serve in war, clearly a centuries-old tribute. But 100 years ago in World War I, the world lost an…
Did You Know WWI Dragged On Even After Armistice Signed?
Examined with hindsight, the end of World War I was not the slam dunk history books and popular culture implies. The Allies wanted more from…
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo – UK Tour: September – November 2018
Following a highly successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful embarks on an exciting West End run and UK Tour. Commemorating the…
U-Boat Wreckage Found – Crew Claimed They Were Attacked by Sea Monster
All throughout naval history, there have tales of mysterious monsters and other such oddities reaching out from the watery abyss to claim ships and sailors…
All-female War Drama – “Square Rounds” from Tony Harrison
Proud Haddock, in association with the Finborough Theatre, present Tony Harrison’s all-female war drama “Square Rounds” Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED 4th…
14 Early British Tanks – After “Little Willie” the Names Got Better
As the inventors of the first tanks, the British produced many early influential fighting vehicles. Little Willie In 1915, the British government set up the…
SILENT LANDSCAPE AT GALLIPOLI – Book Review
I’ve made the majority of my visits to European battlefields in either the fall or winter when the weather is often not the best. Rain…
Comrade Dora – Brutal Executioner of the Bolshevik CHEKA in Odessa
The 1917-1923 civil war in Russia was an armed struggle for power between representatives of various classes, generally defined as the “Whites” who opposed the Soviet state,…
Unprepared for WAR – Why the Allies’ Heads Were in the Sand
At the start of the Second World War, the Allies found themselves at a huge disadvantage. The Axis powers were ready for war while the…
One Man and a Trumpet Sends Army Running
War broke out in 1912 when the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula decided they had had enough of hundreds of years of Ottoman rule. The…