Book Review-Forgotten Tanks and Guns of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s
The period between the wars offered up all manner of oddities as governments and companies attempted to develop fighting vehicles that would be numerous, effective…
Beetle Bailey & The Real Sgt. Snorkel
Griffin solemnly explained her father never realized he was the inspiration for the character that became Sgt. Snorkel. A rather portly and occasionally grouchy Sgt.…
US Submarine Plays Cat & Mouse With Japanese Navy
First launched in 1976, these submarines were a key strategic naval asset during the Cold War Since the end of the War in the Pacific…
Special Delivery-U.S. Postal Service Launch Cruise Missile at Florida
You’ve heard of snail mail, email, and drones delivering mail, but what about Missile Mail? Amazingly, the idea of using weapons to deliver mail has…
A New Pattern For War: French Camouflage During WW1
It did not take long for other armies to adopt camouflage, and each nation did theirs differently. The Great War changed the world forever. A…
Josef Mengele- The Angel of Death
Pregnant women did not escape his loathsome scrutiny. They were like chattel, and once they had served their purpose, they were sent to the gas…
From The Holocaust to Hogan’s Heroes
When Clary eventually ended up at Buchenwald, one of the most horrific of the Nazi concentration camps, he sang for SS soldiers. Though it first…
Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners-Book Review By Mark Barnes.
Men like Churchill and Lloyd George felt bound to get involved in a battle of ideologies because of their convictions and prejudices as they continued…
Handheld For Victory-10 Infantry Weapons of WW2
During World War II, the US produced more than 1.5 million Thompson submachine guns. The Second World War was the largest, most destructive and bloodiest…
A Pagan Crusade-The Franco-Mongolian Alliance
How could the Crusaders possibly justify working with people of a different religion? Many Europeans today remember the Mongols as a existential threat to Europe,…
How Britain Turned Back The Clock Against Luftwaffe
It was devised as a way to save coal during the First World War. The concept of time has intrigued humanity as far back as…
The Auld Alliance -Scotland The Brave
The Scottish took full advantage of this situation. By the end of the year they had retaken almost all of their land and even raided…