Nine Things the Movie ‘Braveheart’ Got Wrong… And One Thing It Got Right
Mel Gibson’s film Braveheart is both one of the most celebrated and one of the most reviled pieces of historical filmmaking ever. A heart-stirring and…
The Longbow: Its Rise and Dominance
The growing effectiveness of metal armor created a challenge for medieval soldiers. While the elite of knights and men-at-arms were now well protected, the majority…
Building Armies in the Harsh World of Medieval England
Recruiting an army could be a difficult business in the Middle Ages. Most people’s lives consisted of farming small patches of land. When people didn’t…
Total War Teams Are Working On The Next Historical Title In The Hugely Successful Series
Enthusiasts of the Total War series might be happy to hear that in addition to Total War: Warhammer 2, Creative Assembly is hard at work…
Duplicate Dog Tags From The Second World War Bring Families Together
Sam Nusz was drafted into the US Army during World War II on March 22, 1941. On March 22, 1944, Nusz was shipped to 204th…
Cemetery Exhuming Remains of 94 Unknown Battle of Tarawa Servicemen for Indentification
Officials are disinterring the remains of 94 unidentified Marines and sailors who were killed in the Pacific during one of the bloodiest battles of World…
The Second Incarnation of HMS Iron Duke – Great Britain’s World War One Ultra-Battleship
Perhaps the Duke of Wellington, were he alive in 1914, would have objected to a second battleship again named after him when the first HMS…
The Remains of a World War Two Pilot Make It Home
The remains of Capt. Albert Schlegel arrived in Beaufort, Ga., March 27, 73 years after he disappeared in World War II, when his P-51 fighter…
Space Coast Honor Flight Lifts The Spirits of Veterans
“NCIS,” the highly-rated drama on CBS, gave its viewers a look into what Space Coast Honor Flight does every day. Bill Welser is the president…
Remembering The First World War – The War That Changed The World Forever
Despite the deaths of thousands in the First World War, and the disappearance of centuries’ old empires, the “war to end all wars’ was transformative.…
How Extraterrestrials Got Japanese-Americans Interned in 1942
Many believe that the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the direct result of Pearl Harbor. While true, there were two other factors involved –…
How Prize Thoroughbred Horses Were Rescued After Germany’s Surrender in WWII
In the last days of World War II, a secret operation was approved by General George Patton to rescue 500 of Europe’s finest thoroughbred horses.…