A Short overview of the Battle of Okinawa
A 6th Marine Division demolition crew watches explosive charges detonate and destroy a Japanese cave, May 1945. [Via] The Battle of Okinawa took place from…
Two US Navy ships located, Sunk During D-Day Rehearsal – Killing Hundreds of Americans
The wreck of LST 531 [Via] Two World War Two US Navy ships that were sunk of the south west coast of England have been located…
5 Soldiers who fought on even when the war was over or when the odds were against them
War is all about standing up for what you believe in, even if it eventually leads to your death. A real soldier fights till the…
The captured OSS agent who convinced an entire German Army to surrender!
Frederick Mayer was born in Baden Germany, in a Jewish family. He worked in Germany for a while after finishing High School education, working as…
WORLD WAR II: From Blitzkrieg to Hiroshima – Review by Mark Barnes
This book is re-released in time for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. It was overseen by the late Richard Holmes; the…
An amazing tale of a US soldier saved by a Nazi doctor
The Second World War has countless tales of heroic escapes and daring adventures, but some stories that came out of this war restore one’s faith…
Remembering Hiroo Onoda: Japanese Soldier who Fought WWII for 29 Years After It Ended!
Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier a brave and an amazing survivor. However, he was surviving and fighting for a war that has long since…
KAMIKAZE – Review by Mark Barnes
My daughter is studying sociology at university and it so happens that the three- year course includes a term on Japanese society during the 20th…
Churchill had planned to thank US with a copy of Magna Carta
As a gesture of gratitude for its active support for the British cause in World War II, the Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, had…
The ‘Vietnam War’ – a horror episode in American History
The 29th of April 1973 was the day when the United States finally pulled out of Vietnam and ended the war that the Vietnamese call…
‘High Hitler’ – a drug history of the ‘Fuehrer’
There is something strange and eerie about the way Adolf Hitler carried himself; everything about him was mysterious and odd. Now, recently discovered historic documents…
Scars of WWII – Czech Republic determined to rid the country of the Nazis’ mess
It is said that wars leave permanent scars on the face of history. This becomes even more evident in the case of a world war,…