Keeping Out of Combat: How the Swiss Fought to be Neutral
There is no better example of a nation learning its political and military lessons the hard way than the process by which Switzerland adopted the…
US Invasion of Grenada- Successes and Failures
The United States’ invasion of Grenada commenced in earnest on 25 October 1983, on the orders of President Ronald Reagan. The invading force was made…
Royal Concerns: How The King Protected His Children During WWII
While the life of a royal might be hard for many of us to imagine, we can nevertheless empathize with a father’s desire to protect…
Worst Weapons of WWII: Luckily Some Were Never Used
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but sometimes soldiers were sent into battle with shockingly incompetent weaponry: either inherently seriously flawed, extremely outdated, insufficient for…
How a Drunken Colonel Wasted the Gallant 7th Maine at Antietam
Late in the afternoon of September 17, roughly an hour before the sunset that would mark the close of the bloodiest day in U.S. history,…
“The Captain” – Executioner of Emsland Based on Actual Events
Signature Entertainment presents The Captain in UK Cinemas – 21st September and DVD & Digital HD 1st October Based on the astonishing true story of…
Picasso’s “Guernica” and the Wartime Tragedy That Inspired It
Whilst he was living in Paris, Pablo Picasso was commissioned to paint a mural for the Spanish Pavilion in the 1937 Paris World’s Fair. However,…
B-1 Bomber Developer Helped End Cold War – Left A Mark on History
The end of the Second World War should have brought about a cessation of tension, but nature abhors a vacuum in politics just as much…
Little Known Soviet “Doolittle” Raid on Berlin
Before and during WWII, or “Great Patriotic War” as it is known in the nations that made up the USSR, the Soviets built tens of…
Black Sunday – The Disastrous Ploesti Raid in Photos and Video
Officially known as Operation Tidal Wave, the Ploesti Raid occurred on 1 August 1943, and because it marked the second highest loss suffered by the…
Russian Invasion of Georgia: The South Ossetia Conflict
As preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games reached their final stages, so did the 1992 ceasefire agreement between Georgia and South Ossetia. A series of…
Gulf War Vets Use Virtual Reality to Treat PTSD
It is estimated that 11 – 20% of soldiers who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) suffer from Post Traumatic…