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The Greatest Lie In History – Double Agent Garbo & D-Day Landings

The D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944 was the Allies attempt to invade Europe and finally push back the Nazi invaders once and for all. General…

Royal Navy officer who seized Enigma machine from a raided German U-Boat has died aged 95

A Royal Navy veteran and hero has died aged 95. Lieutenant Commander David Balme led the team who stole the Nazis’ infamous Enigma machine after…

1946 – The Makings Of The Post-war World – Details Beginning Of The Cold War

At the end of World War Two life was depressing for the millions of war-torn people left to survive across Europe and the Pacific. There…

Operation Desert Storm – Fast Facts

Two Iraqi T-55 main battle tanks lie abandoned on the Basra-Kuwait Highway near Kuwait City after the release of Iraqi forces from the city during…

Campaign Launched To Help Recover Our Vimy Heroes

A campaign to have Canadian World War One soldiers reinterred from their battle graves at Vimy Ridge has been started.  To date over $20,000 has…

Gallipoli Victoria Cross Hero of the Royal Naval Division Remembered

A 24-year old soldier was one of the unsung heroes of World War One’s Gallipoli campaign. Arthur Tisdall was honored with the Victoria Cross for…

Dutch Man Cared for Grave of American Paratrooper Since He Was 13

A new film is being made about a Dutch man who has tended the grave of a West Virginian World War Two soldier for more…

WWII Nazi SS fantasy castle opens to the public

Heinrich Himmler was one of the most vicious mass murderers in recorded history and was the architect of the Holocaust. He was born in Munich…

British Intelligence Eavesdropping on Captured German Generals Proved to be a Turning Point in War

German prisoners believed they were living in luxury the way the British officers were treating them.  The prisoners were held in large, well-kept homes where…

What if America Had Been Conquered in WWII?

Imagine a world in which America had been partitioned at the end of the Second World War, one sector west of the Rockies being governed…

Veteran Dambuster Turns 94

The final surviving member of the World War Two 617 Squadron that undertook the infamous Dambuster raid has celebrated his 94th birthday. George Johnson is…

World War One nurse revealed as a spy

The truth behind a hero World War One nurse executed by a German fire squad for being a spy has been revealed for the first…