In The Great Épinal Escape, Ghee Bowman tells the incredible story of forgotten Indian POWs, and their daring escape to ...
Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...
People employed across certain industries vital to keeping the country running would be exempt from the draft and it is likely the same rules would apply if WW3 was to break out.
French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...
"We were then by a bridge, held by the Royal Ulster Rifles, which was attacked by German tanks until the British 2nd Army came up [having crossed the Rhine]." Eventually he was returned to the UK ...
From colonial America to the recent war in Iraq, Army stories have captured movie audiences for nearly a century; influencing ...
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
"We were then by a bridge, held by the Royal Ulster Rifles, which was attacked by German tanks until the British 2nd Army came up [having crossed the Rhine]." Eventually he was returned to the UK, but ...
Reading historical fiction is a powerful way to experience the past through the eyes of someone living a very different life.
Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...
The lessons to learn are: avoid war, and the drum-beating that precedes it. And avoid technocratic utopian groupthink; avoid ideologies masquerading as science. The Nazi Hunger Plan was devised by an ...
In September 1943, the Western Allies—the US, Britain, and Canada—invaded fascist Italy, which was allied with Nazi Germany ...