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Top 5 Facts – Ireland’s Easter Rising In The Midst Of World War One (Watch)

A century ago nationalists from the Irish Republican Brotherhood stood up against British rule on the Emerald Isle. The Irish capital of Dublin became ground…

5 Facts: One of the Most Terrifying Weapons in the World – Flamethrowers

Warning: contains shocking material. This video shows the applications in battle of one of the most psychologically terrifying weapons in the world. What is a flamethrower?…

World War One Tank, Lost Since the Battle of the Somme, Rises from its Grave in France

It isn’t that unusual for Second World War aircraft to be unearthed completely with the remains of the pilot. What is unusual is to find…

The Royal Brothers, Future Kings, Who Both Fought In WWI – They Had Vastly Different Experiences

Ian Harvey

­­ Brothers Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince Albert, both of whom became king of England, each served in the military during World War I.…

Battlefield 1 Lets You Fly Over the Chaos of WWI Trench Warfare – Playing as a Carrier Pigeon (Video)

Check out the Pigeon Scene and 20 full minutes of campaign action from Battlefield 1 below. More snippets of Battlefield 1’s campaign are coming out…

Tiny Australian Town Remembers The 13 Men Who Never Returned From The First World War

The small town of Kojonup saw its population swell from 25 to 300 recently, drawing local residents and visitors from other states who attended to…

The Warship That Fired The First Shots Of WWI

Stuck into a muddy river bank, somewhere in Serbia, lies an old, derelict gravel barge. Rusted, useless, and over 100 years old it has limited…

Breathtaking Drone Footage Flying Over The First World War Battlefields Of Verdun

In this Drone footage by Gauthier Lefebvre we will take a look at battle for Verdun as we’ve never seen it before. We fly over trenches, inside…

WWI ‘Canary Babies’ Were Born With A Yellow Tint To Their Skin Because Their Mothers Worked In Munitions Factories

Ian Harvey

The last surviving ‘Canary Babies’ have told their story of how their skin was tinged yellow after their mothers worked in explosives factories in the…

Dutch Company Accused of Profiting by Looting Warship Wreck From the Battle of Jutland

The Dutch salvage firm Friendship Offshore is under fire from Maritime heritage organizations in the UK and in Denmark which have accused the company of…

Top 5 Battles Where Fighting Spirit Overcame The Odds

Battles can be lost for a hundred different reasons. Poor numbers, unwise strategy, inferior weapons, the list goes on. But just occasionally, a fighting force…

Sergeant York – Captured 132 German Soldiers In WWI – Movie Scene

Sergeant Alvin York was seemingly born to a hardscrabble existence and anonymity in death, but World War One changed that forever. The story of York is…