Images of War series – Review by Mark Barnes
Here are two very nice books in the Images of War range by Michael Green. I have been sitting on these two a bit too…
Royal Navy Destroys Huge World War Two Mine In Solent
During World War II, the U-boat fleet, which dominated much of the battle of the Atlantic, was small at the beginning of the war and…
The WWI Soldier Who Did Not Give Up: Lost Two Brothers In Combat And Sister In A Zeppelin Raid, Left For Dead But Survived
Robert Collie not only survived the Somme where the Allies lost 57.000 men the first day and fought at Ypres salient in World War One.…
New Orleans Annual Airshow Has Veterans Return To Their WWII Planes
New Orleans has made a program change in its annual airshow put on by the National World War II Museum and the Commemorative Air Force.…
First Recipient of Victoria Cross Picked Up Live Enemy Shell with Fuse Still Hissing, Saving The Ship
Valor in the midst of warfare is nothing new and has been the hallmark of gallant stories throughout history. But with every medal a nation…
A Fortunate Son: An Industrialist Father, Infamous Nazi Goebbels As Step-Father, and a Billion-Dollar Legacy
Luftwaffe Lieutenant Harald Quandt was fortunate to be in a British prisoner of war camp in the Libyan port city of Benghazi at the end…
Iconic Colourised Images of Operation Market Garden
The Battle of Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven (Operation Market Garden) 17–25 September 1944. On Sunday 17 September, 500 gliders and 1,500 aircraft flew over the…
The U-2 Spy Plane & SR-71 Blackbird – All The Things You Are Not Supposed To Know!
The Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ are two planes of which there is not a lot known about them. Here we will learn some facts…
World’s Biggest Sunken Treasure Found: San José, Located off Colombian Coast
The President of Colombia has announced that the ancient 18th-century 60 Gun Spanish galleon, the San José, has been discovered after having sunk more than…
Top 5 Best Military Bolt Action Rifles
Bolt action rifles were the mainstays of armies across the globe for nearly over half a century, and today we pick what we believe to…
The Man Who Spared A Wounded Hitler’s Life In WWI – And Changed The World Forever
The History of War will always be about that which we know for certain, that which we have reason to believe, and that which will…
Top 10 Best World War I Films, Have You Seen Them All?
We are in the 100th anniversary of the World War I. What better time than this to look back at the most memorable depictions of the…