Scary blue pencil of lifelong editor and leader of Soviet Union in the mid 20th century, Joseph Stalin
Photo story (From left to right): (1) Lenin and Stalin in 1920 (2) Stalin had signed in blue pencil a mass death sentence to execute…
English “living museum” to feature replica of World War I trenches
A replica of World War I trenches will be built in the English countryside to serve as “living museum” of the Great War. The replicated…
World War II bomb manuals reveal techniques used by Churchill’s ‘secret army’
On first glance, they look like old calendars, diaries or fertilizer manuals. But as readers flip the pages, the manual provides crucial and comprehensive information…
Arnhem & Market Garden Battlefield tour report – By Mark Barnes
By Mark Barnes for War History Online Want to take this tour too? Visit the Hells Highway Tours website! Arnhem: You can’t help yourself; you…
ESCAPE FROM DAVA0 – Coming this fall from the World War II Foundation
Based on the book “Escape from Davao” by John D. Lukacs. Narrated by Dale Dye. April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two…
WWII Drama “The Imitation Game” Starts Filming with main Actors Cumberbatch, Knightley
A different Benedict Cumberbatch was seen in an equally different-looking King’s Cross station last October 20, Sunday. Second World War Drama The 37-year-old English…
Nazi war criminal Priebke avoids being cremated and buried at sea like Bin Laden
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Priebke showed no remorse in the video recorded just before his death, he rather accused the resistance fighters…
Sir Frank Whittle’s jet engine blueprints drawn during WWII expected to fetch £ 30,000 at auction next month
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Sir Frank during WWII, seated at his desk with first British jet aircraft and first jet engine models…
George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ showing moved to 2014
“The Monuments Men”, a film which is about the recovery of looted artworks and other treasures during and after World War II and is…
WWII PoW Owned Rolex is to be Auctioned Off at an Estimated £30,000.
1942, Flight Lieutenant Gerald Imeson was held at the Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. Since he was in a German war camp, you would…
Sometimes Living Was Worse Than Dying for Soldiers Who Survived the Front Lines
A compassionate World War 1 nurse, Winifred Kenyon, did all she could for the many wounded soldiers she treated every day. For some, all…