US warship under makeover
A US navy cruiser which was used during the Second World War is now found as a floating museum on the waterfront of lake Erie…
TV’s Dan Snow discovers his great-grandmother was a WWI volunteer orderly
After Dan Snow, historian and presenter from The One Show, discovered that his great-grandmother, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, worked as a volunteer aid helping wounded…
STILWELL AND THE CHINDITS – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we are again with another instalment of the Images of War series from Pen & Sword. This time round we find ourselves in the…
Poland: Eight Holocaust Victims Shoes Stolen
Poland – Eight Holocaust victims shoes were stolen recently from a former concentration camp now turned museum in Poland. According to reports, the theft took place between November 18…
Will the Chinese wartime forced labourers get justice this time?
An association of lawyers, academics and forced labourers and their families in China have sued two Japanese companies that forced Chinese men and women as…
Wreckage sites of 3 WW-II fighter planes at Loktak Lake identified
Seventy years have passed since the Second World War and we are still discovering previously unidentified wreckages of fighter planes and wartime artefacts. Recently, three…
Forced labour lawsuit accepted by Beijing court
Chinese citizens that were used as forced labourers by the Japanese during WWII have requested compensation. A court in Beijing has accepted the lawsuit. The…
A WOOD CALLED BOURLON – Review by Wayne Osborne
This is another re-published work. William Moore’s book about Bourlon Wood first hit the shelves in 1988 and it seeks to discuss the so-called ‘cover-up’…
GUEST BLOGGER GEOFF MOORE: Where WWII was decided?
Deep under a massive 5metre thick concrete dome in Northern France Hitler’s secret weapon of the ballistic V2 rockets were being manufactured with Nazi production-line…
Warships being stripped bare for scrap metal
Two of the most celebrated British wartime ships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, sunk off the coast of Malaysia in 1941. There also…
WWII Albert Einstein Letter Went Under the Hammer for $12,500
A letter penned down by renowned scientist Albert Einstein during the WWII-era was recently auctioned off for $12,500, the amount more than what the auctioneers estimated it…
Bill the man of strong will
Second World War veteran paratrooper Bill made his final jump at the age of 93. Bill is a man of strong will whose target achieving…