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…
BILLY CONGREVE DIARY – Review by Wayne Osborne
This is yet another diary from the Great War and it is a very good read for either the casual reader or the historian. Billy…
War Criminals of WWII Japan Confess Their Crimes
Of all historic conflicts, WWII may be most associated with war criminals. Vicious wrongdoings were in abundance as the Allies fought tooth and nail to…
WWII Veteran and Olympic Runner Louis Zamperini Dies of Pneumonia
Louis Zamperini was a veteran of the Second World War. He left his career as an Olympic runner to fly for the Allied forces, but…
Russian Embassy Awards British WWII Arctic Convoy Veterans with the Ushakov Medal
The Russian embassy awarded 30 British World War II veterans with the Ushakov medal. The medals were presented by the Russian embassy’s defense attaché Captain…
The Unsinkable Navy Heroes of the First World War
They guarded the waters going towards South Americas and the eastern parts of China and Middle East and kept the British Empire rock solid during…