WIMPY – A Detailed Illustrated History of the Vickers Wellington in Service – Review by Mark Barnes
There is a tidy page on Facebook called the Aviation Enthusiast Book Club that might sound like the name of a band of posh public…
Guest blogger Dan Snow: Dunkirk – Day by Day – 30 May 1940
Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On 30 May 1940 the British cabinet meet…
Air Raids over the Borneo Oil Refineries by Dakota Hunter Hans Wiesman
The fascinating photo was taken from a PBY-5 operated by Australian Forces, to supply the Allied war effort in PNG in 1944/45 . As the…
The New Reich Chancellery, a look in Hitlers center of Power
In this photo series, we are taking a look at the New Reich Chancellery from it’s construction to its after-life. All pictures, except the “Afterlife”,…
49 quotes from Fury – do you remember them??!!
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened Army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and his…
LAWRENCE IN ARABIA – Review by Chris Buckham
Altruism is not a principle of war nor is it a principle of international relations and it is with this pretext that one must approach…
Dunkirk Veterans visited Paris for 75th commemoration Ceremony of the Evacuation
The Veterans from the famous Dunkirk Evacuation are getting together in northern France to commemorate the most daring rescue in military history. They will pay…
Guest blogger Dan Snow – Dunkirk: Day by Day – 29 May 1940
Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On 29 May 1940 – The British are…
George ‘Blood and Guts’ Patton
George Smith Patton Jr was born on the 11th November, 1885, into a family with a long record of military service. He saw action in…
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 10 Henchmen That Served Hitler and the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler’s inner circle were the most powerful men in the Third Reich. It was a finely balanced team of military commanders, administrative leaders and…
‘The Camp Vermont’ – the civil war history of Spring Bank
It is a surprising fact that a civil war camp named Camp Vermont is not in Vermont; it is rather located in the present day…
RAF trained Soviet Pilots in a Secret Mission during WWII
Some of the Soviet airmen who came to Scotland in 1943 to undertake top-secret training at Errol Airfield, including Commander Peter Kolesnikov, front row, left.…