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Iranian Embassy Siege and More – Top 8 SAS Operations (We Know About)

The Special Air Service (SAS) was founded by Colonel David Stirling in 1941 as a regiment of the British Army. They were originally a commando…

Honour in Battle – The WW2 Spitfire Pilot Spared by Enemy Fighters

John Hamilton Nicholls was a Spitfire pilot in World War II. He destroyed or damaged 10 enemy aircraft during the war and was awarded the…

Iranian Embassy Siege and More – Top 8 SAS Operations (We Know About)

  The Special Air Service (SAS) was founded by Colonel David Stirling in 1941 as a regiment of the British Army. They were originally a…

Leicester to Libya – Review by Mark Barnes

Read any of the great accounts of warfare from the major publishing houses and it will be apparent their reliance on primary sources for details…

Iranian Embassy Siege and More – Top 8 SAS Operations (We Know About)

The Special Air Service (SAS) was founded by Colonel David Stirling in 1941 as a regiment of the British Army. They were originally a commando…

German Soldiers Forced to Eat Poop to Cure Dysentery Outbreak

What could be worse than being overcome with gut-wrenching cramps, cold sweats, and horrible dizziness in the deserts of North Africa? Maybe the moment that…

Iranian Embassy Siege and More – Top 8 SAS Operations (We Know About)

The Special Air Service (SAS) was founded by Colonel David Stirling in 1941 as a regiment of the British Army. They were originally a commando…

WAR’S NOMADS – A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western Desert Campaign 1942-43 – Review by Mark Barnes

We’ve been in the desert a few times and I generally find writing of the campaign to have a different quality to conflict in other…

WWII hero Jack Tirrell repeatedly put himself in front of enemy tanks

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) WWII hero Jack Tirrell who received four bravery medals including three MCs on three occasions during the war…

THE DESERT WAR The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-43. Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

THE DESERT WAR The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-43 Mediterranean Front, A Year of Battle and The End in Africa By Alan Moorehead…

GERMAN AND ITALIAN WWII POW’S HONORED IN KANSAS

Ian Harvey

A man wearing a German army uniform spoke to a gathering of other American, German, and Italian soldiers freezing in the Kansas wind. In front…

Former WWII PoW revisits Orkney chapel to express his thanks

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Gino Caprara, now 93, was a former prisoner of war during the Second World War. Decades after one of the biggest conflicts in history, Caprara…