AGINCOURT – Review by Squire Philip de Hodges
Military DVDs: Did I want to review some? Well not really, no. I’d experienced some before and to be blunt they were awful! I’ve never…
Royal Princes Regret Not Fighting WWI
When they were still royal princes, future kings George VI and Edward VIII wrote letters describing their regrets about not being able to fight in…
FURY – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
Cast your weary minds back to the summer of 2013. I was sitting with a colleague in the press office at the War & Peace…
Hitler Invades the Soviet Union and Churchill Pledges Support
June 22th marks the anniversary of the British pledge to aid the Russians in stopping a German assault on Russian soil. It is also the…
World War Two Battle of Saipan Re-enacted Seventy Years Later
Seventy years after the Battle of Saipan was fought as part of World War Two, it was re-enacted as part of this year’s celebration in…
Snow and Steel – Review by Mark Barnes
There is a long running radio show on the BBC called Desert Island Discs, the premise being that the invited celebrity will pick a number…
Second World War and Crystal Meth: Hitler Was A Drug Addict?
According to information from a new finding, Adolf Hitler may have been a drug addict and that may have affected his state of mind during…
Restoration of the Matilda Battle Tank
The memories of the World War II etched in the minds of veterans are fading as we get deeper into the 21st century. To keep…
World War Two:Japanese Balloon Bomb Discovered Near Lumby, British Columbia
An unexploded bomb dating back to World War Two was discovered nearby Lumby seven decades after the war was fought. Lumby is a small Canadian…
FOR THE FALLEN – Review by Mark Barnes
We are inching close to Armistice Day and the poppies will soon be on sale again. Like tens of thousands of others I wear mine…
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Modern Implications of Waterloo
Early in the nineteenth century, Napoleon Bonaparte suffered defeat at the hands of Duke Wellington and his forces at the Battle of Waterloo. According to…
Richard Wagner and the Third Reich
Many comparisons can be drawn between Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler. Both are regarded as strongly anti-Semitic, and both believed that German culture needed to…