The Greatest Underdog Victories in Pre-Gunpowder Battles
Ancient and Medieval generals were often smart enough to avoid battle against a much larger force but throughout history there are many cases where much…
The Battle of Pliska – a Byzantine military disaster
Though they clung to the name of the Roman Empire, the Byzantines never achieved the glory of their predecessors. Theirs was an empire in slow…
The picture has become iconic, if you ask any Marine, the one thing they praise about this picture as much as any other is the First Sergeant’s remarkable trigger discipline
Every war has its iconic pictures that will forever resonate in the minds of the public and most certainly of the men who fought it. …
Up The Wooden Hill – The Tale of Two Families – By Jill Schaefer
“Up The Wooden Hill” is a historical memoir by Jill Schaefer about growing up in England and Germany before, during and after World War II,…
The Female Allied Spy Was Condemned To Death By The Germans – In The End They Gave Her The Iron Cross
During WWI, the German government condemned a woman to death for spying on them. Fortunately for her, they commuted her sentence when they realized they…
The Battle of Arsuf – To Win the Day, One Man Must Defy His Own King
Beneath the relentless beating of the midday sun, under a seemingly endless rain of arrows, The Grand Master’s patience had all but run out. Garnier…
Bombing Germany: The Allied Campaign 1940-44
In any time of ‘total war’ human beings, driven by the will to stay alive, will do un-imaginable things of one kind or another. War…
Single Combat At The Siege of Bayonne, 1131AD
Pedro de Lara was bored. His had lived a full life, a life of personal pride and skill at arms, of politics, wine and of…
10 Key Developments in the History of Cavalry
Devastating in their impact, terrifying for both their enemies and their steeds, cavalry units have been a key component of war for most of military…
The Tank Museum: Sydney Hadley’s Glass Eye
One of the personal objects on display in The Tank Men exhibition is emblematic of the personal sacrifice made by so many men in World…
Samurai, Ninja, Ronin, And More – Seven Different Warrior Classes Of Feudal Japan
Feudal Japan is remembered as the era of the samurai. Like the knights of feudal Europe, they were the expensively equipped warrior aristocracy. They were,…
Military blunders of the Boer War – led by men of stunning ineptitude, who cost many brave men their lives, probably prolonged the war
“The Boers are not like the Sudanese, who stood up to a fair fight. They are always running away on their little ponies.” – General…