Rudolf Vrba – one of the first to report on the horrors of Auschwitz
Rudolf Vrba was one of the first people to escape from Auschwitz concentration camp and report what was happening there to the authorities. Rudolf was…
THE GUNNERS OF AUGUST 1914 – Review by Wayne Osborne
“Here, in my view, lies the real story of the war.” Says John Hutton of his book on p.vii of the Preface. “First and foremost,…
Vickers Wellington World War Two Bomber to be Restored with Original Czech Markings?
One of only two remaining Vickers Wellington long-range bombers that flew during World War Two is being restored to its former, original glory. A Czech…
Don Fida, The Only WWII’s Kwajalein Battle Survivor Fit to Attend Its 71st Anniversary
WWII vet Don Fida of Syracuse will be returning to the Japanese-controlled Kwajalein atoll, an island which saw the bloody Kwajalein Battle during Second World War seven…
Liverpool soldier helped catch Adolf Hitler’s number two Heinrich Himmler
The late John Fletcher was just 17 when he signed up for the British Army during World War II. He was a gunner with the…
“Night Will Fall”: Powerful Holocaust Documentary Aired in HBO
Night Will Fall, a new and gripping documentary on the Holocaust which features raw footage, the ones taken by combat and newsreel cameramen during the…
MI5 Feared Crop Circles, UFOs were the Works of the Nazis – WWII Documents
WWII documents which recently surfaced revealed that MI5 feared the crop circles were the works of the Nazis and tried for years deciphering them. They were…
A7V tank from World War I on the bottom Wieprz river? It may be the first original in Europe!
A German A7V tank from World War I was found in 2013 at the bottom of the river. There is no original of this tank in Europe,…
World War One time capsule found at local school
A time capsule from World War One has been found at a local British school in Hertfordshire, north of London. The capsule is a trunk…
The T-26 Light Tank – Review by Phil Hodges
Ok, ok. Great battle tanks of the Second World War? The Russian T-26 doesn’t exactly spring to mind does it? I mean, it’s Russian and its…
WWI Stories: Ivanhoe Avon, the Great War and the Pennies that Saved His Life
Know the story of Ivanhoe Avon, the WWI soldier who owed his life to two pennies and who, through the course of the Great War,…
Nuremberg rally ground where the Nazi’s held their annual parades may be renovated
Calls to have the Nuremberg rally ground restored and made into a permanent memorial and reminder of the evil of Nazism have been raised by…