Biography of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona – Zulu Kingdom
South African history has produced many notorious figures, one of whom is the second king of the Zulu nation, Dingane kaSenzangakhona. Nervous about white encroachment on his land, he had…
TRAILER: Kätilö (2015) – Finnish WW2 Movie
Kätilö (Wildeye) tells the story of a Finnish midwife who falls in love with a German-Finnish Waffen-SS officer during the Lapland War, in the middle of World War II. It’s a…
REVIEW: Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II by Prit Butar
With the exception of Poland, no region or territory suffered more greatly during World War II than the Baltic States. Caught between the giants of the Soviet Union and the…
Discovery of U-155 Wreck by Innes McCartney
Target: U-155 IXC Depth: 73 metres Weather and sea conditions: Sunny – 4-5W – 25 metres underwater visibility U-155 at last! The location of this most famous of U-boats was…
HMS Hampshire, Lord Kitchener and the deaths of 650 men
IN JUNE 1916, Field Marshall Earl Kitchener, the Minister of War, was scheduled to visit Russia for a series of negotiations aimed at ensuring that the Tsar’s forces would stay…
REVIEW: Invasion by Kenneth Macksey
There has never been a successful defence of any island in warfare since “modern” aircraft took to the skies and the invader established air superiority or air supremacy over their invasion site. Fleets…
Free Normandy American Cemetery Smartphone App Available for Download
On June 6, 1944 the history of the world changed when the Allies landed along the Normandy coast, beginning the D-Day invasion of World War II. Tens of thousands of…
M4 Sherman (Medium Tank) – Media
The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the most numerous battle tank used by the United States and some other Western Allies in World War II. It proved to…
The amazing story of the Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6 – 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under…
Preserving Rare WWII B-26 Bomber “Flak Bait”
With Flak-Bait front fuselage, conservation team members from left, Jeremy Kinney, Lauren Horelick, Pat Robinson and Chris Moore. (Credits: Michelle Z. Donahue) Ah, that new car smell. New plane smell…
