Being a WWII Historian WW2TV Show – October 12th
In 2016, in a Guardian article titled ‘Big Books by Blokes about Battles – Why is History Still Written Mainly By Men?”, Sir Antony Beevor…
Haynes salutes British and Commonwealth Infantrymen with poignant manual ahead of Remembrance Sunday
Haynes is this month commemorating the British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Second World War by releasing the British Infantryman Operations Manual. The manual,…
Divers Believe They Have Located the WWII Wreck of the USS Grenadier
Divers working off the coast of Thailand have discovered the wreckage of a submarine they believe to be the USS Grenadier which was lost in…
Lawmakers Make Way for Army Hero to Receive Medal of Honor
Sergeant Alwyn Cashe gave his life in service to his country during the Iraq War in 2005. On October 17th of that year he was…
London Blue Plaque Memorial Unveiled for Churchill’s ‘Favourite Spy’
Polish national, Krystyna Skarbek, was said to have possessed a near pathological enjoyment of dangerous situations. Her reported actions during WWII certainly bear out such…
Midway: Six Minutes of Fury
It was just after 10 AM, June 4, 1942 over Midway, and Air Group Commander C. Wade McClusky Jr. had a tough decision on his…
Defy The Covid Gloom With Four Books From Pen & Sword Stable – Review by Mark Barnes
Our reviewer sorts out the mess in his ‘to do’ pile after a difficult few months. [Where were we? Oh yes, I remember; I review…
Sold to One of the World’s Largest Private Collectors – Kevin Wheatcroft
Back in the 1960s, MGM made a film entitled “The Yellow Rolls Royce”. With an all-star cast it charted the life of a primrose yellow…
History Breakthrough: Discovery of Stolen Gold ‘hidden on last days of WW2’
An archaeologist using a metal detector discovered a buried stash of stolen gold coins from Nazi-era Germany. Experts believed the coins were buried near the…
Forrest Gump Author Dies at Age 77
Winston Groom, Army veteran and author, passed away on September 17 at the age of 77 years old. Groom is best known as the author…
Americans Lack Basic Knowledge of the Holocaust Study Finds
According to a survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), nearly two-thirds of young US adults are unaware that…
Modern Technology Reveals Secret of the Sinking of the Bismarck
The Bismarck was Germany’s “unsinkable” battleship which the Nazis used to wreak havoc on the British Royal Navy in World War II. Now, more than…