Krig & slag

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around …

The remarkable true story of an amazing and loyal donkey during World War I.The true story of a small grey donkey called Murphy, chosen to be a trusty 'ambulance' during the bloody …

AK47:orna pekar åt alla håll. Föraren gasar på. Den asfalterade vägen krackelerar under lastbilens tyngd och vi kastas runt som trasdockor. Vi befinner oss några kilometer nordväst …

Coningsby Dawson was born in 1883 at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. Coningsby was to graduate from Merton College, Oxford in 1905. He took a theological course for a …

An eye witness account of the second battle of El Alamein by World War II veteran rifleman Victor Gregg.The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October 11 November 1942) was a …

After sweeping through France and Belgium in the summer of 1944, the Allies were poised to enter the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the Allied axis of advance. …

Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940 1943) during the Second World War. The Western Desert Force, composed of around …

R. Derby Holmes was an American serving as a corporal of the 22nd London Battalion of the queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment. As he writes in his foreword "e;I have tried as …

John Gallishaw was born in St Johns, Newfoundland in Canada in 1891. Educated at Harvard he was 23 when the Great War broke out. He returned home to join the Canadian army in …

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