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WWII and Monopoly, how it helped captured Airmen escape!

Heziel Pitogo

  The board game called Monopoly had really come a long way since it was first mass-produced in America in 1934. The game is basically…

Mini Sub Raid Against German Battleship Tirpitz

The German Battleship Tirpitz, launched in 1941, was thought to be unsinkable it was dubbed The Beast after ten attempts made by the British and Russian forces against it…

Remembering Frank Stone, One of Stalag Luft’s “Great Escape” Heroes (1922-2013)

Stalag Luft III, 1944 “The tension was electric the night of the escape. And then around dawn I heard a shot and barking and I…

Remembering Ferguson Smith, WWII Hero Turned Cold War Spy Catcher

Surprised was the least of words to describe how the London suburb neighborhood Ferguson Smith, full name Ferguson George Donaldson Smith but was mostly known through…

Wargaming donate £75,00 to the Dornier bomber restoration project

The severely damaged German Dornier Do17 Bomber, recovered last June, will soon get a major makeover, thanks to the collaboration of game developer Wargaming and…

WWII and Monopoly, how it helped captured Airmen escape!

Heziel Pitogo

  The board game called Monopoly had really come a long way since it was first mass-produced in America in 1934. The game is basically…

High-Tech Innovation Used In WWII Excavation

A bunch of army reserve engineers have lent a hand in locating and excavating a wreckage of a WWII Spitfire, a British single-seater war craft…

Prince Charles Launched Battle of Britain Museum

Prince Charles of Wales and his wife, Duchess Camilla of Cornwall opened an exhibits archive fully dedicated to the memories of the battle of Britain.…

REVIEW: SURVIVING BOMBER AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR TWO by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

It’s a well worn axiom that any guide book is pretty much out of date as soon as it’s printed and I’m already thinking you…

REVIEW: THE ARMED ROVERS Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediteranean by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

In a previous life I used to work for a music paper which was owned by IPC, the large publishing empire which was then based…

Airway to the East 1918-1920

Mark Barnes

Like Pen & Sword’s autobiography of Hitler’s snapper, this is the sort of book that inspires articles in the nether regions of the Daily Mail.…

MOSQUITO Menacing the Reich

Mark Barnes

An admission: After I read this book I started another which I had been so looking forward to. A Great War history with fantastic photos…