Showing posts with the label War

Horizontal Collaboration: Sleeping With The Enemy

Mar 7, 2024

The historic D-Day landing by Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of a crucial phase in World War...

The Red Ball Express

Sep 21, 2023

During World War II, one of the most significant logistical challenges faced by the Allied forces during their invasion of Europe was ensuri...

Dorothy Lawrence: The Woman Who Posed as a Soldier to be a War Correspondent

Mar 29, 2023

The First World War was reported from an almost exclusively male perspective, because few female war correspondents were given access to the...

The Shortest War in History Lasted Less Than An Hour

May 26, 2022

How do you define a war? Should both sides have a fair chance of winning? Is a coup within a protectorate justified as war? Does the conflic...

How a German Air Raid in Bari Helped Discover a Cure For Cancer

Apr 28, 2022

On December 2, 1943, the Germans launched a surprise attack on a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking more than 20 Allied merchant ships ...

The Battle of The Eclipse

Mar 25, 2022

Picture this: two raging kings have been at war for five years now. Lives have been lost, battles have been fought, and in the current momen...

Treaty of Kadesh: The World’s First Peace Treaty

Mar 10, 2022

On the walls of the Temple of Karnak near Luxor, Egypt, and on the temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II in Thebes, are engravings that describe a g...

Bob Semple’s Tank: New Zealand’s Homegrown Tractor-Tanks

Nov 26, 2021

In 1941, war hysteria gripped New Zealand and its neighboring country of Australia. The Japanese army was advancing rapidly across South Eas...

The Accidental Bombing of Bezuidenhout

Jul 5, 2021

At eight o’clock in the morning of 3 March 1945, the air-raid sirens were heard for the first time over Hague. A short while later a wave of...

The Bell Cemeteries of World War 2

Jun 21, 2021

Nearly every German family in every German town contributed something to the two World Wars. For many, it was their men. For others, it was ...

The Flying Tanks of World War 2

Jun 16, 2021

Dropping supplies including combat vehicles to troops on the ground was one of the biggest achievements of the military during World War 2. ...

The Ni'ihau Incident

May 28, 2021

Ni'ihau is the smallest of the inhabited islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, privately owned since the 19th century and which would hav...

Hunley: The Submarine That Wouldn’t Come Up

Mar 30, 2021

On 17 February 1864, the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley attacked and sank a 1,240-ton United States Navy ship, the USS Housatonic , and e...

The Mercy Dogs of World War 1

Mar 26, 2021

Dogs have accompanied men to war since ancient times, as scouts, sentries, trackers and messengers. But the most unique role they ever playe...

Heroic War Pigeons

Mar 16, 2021

World War One, and to some extent, the Second World War, was a strange blend of archaic and modern technology. The First World War, in parti...

Citizens! During Shelling This Side of The Street is The Most Dangerous

Feb 15, 2021

The city of Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in Russia and in eastern Europe, with a great ensemble of historic building...

Anderson Shelters: The Backyard Bunkers That Saved Britons From Luftwaffe Bombings

Jan 7, 2021

In 1938, before the Second World War had even begun, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain placed Sir John Anderson in charge of air ra...

How Alexander Turned The Island of Tyre Into a Peninsula

Nov 17, 2020

The city of Tyre in southern Lebanon is one of the oldest cities in the world. Originally founded by settlers from the nearby city of Sidon ...

The Dambusters Raid of 1943

Nov 11, 2020

On the night of 16–17 May 1943, a squadron of the Royal Air Force conducted a daring mission deep into German territory to destroy two dams ...

The German-Japanese Village Where The Most Fearful Weapon Was Tested

Nov 2, 2020

One of the most devastating weapons ever invented was not the atomic bomb but napalm, the incendiary agent that was used extensively against...