Of Sharpies and Sharpe — The Napoleonic Artwork of Ben Pook

“I got into the Napoleonic period with the Sharpe TV series at a young age, obsessively watching episodes daily on repeat and drawing.” TO MARK THE 204th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, we here…

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‘The Cold Blue’ – New Documentary Dazzles with Digitally Restored Wartime Bomber Footage

“Audiences will be transfixed as B-17 pilots and gunners survive flak barrages, enemy fighters and sub-zero temperatures during some of the most harrowing bombing missions of the war.” IT’S THE EUROPEAN air war like you’ve…

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This Is My Fight Song – Seven National Anthems Inspired by Bloodshed, Battles and War

“America isn’t the only country with an official song that sprung from the pages of military history. Consider these.” FRANCIS SCOTT KEY wasn’t much of a songwriter. In fact, friends of the Baltimore-based barrister remembered…

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What’s Wrong With This Picture? — Seven Strange Facts About One of America’s Most Iconic Paintings

“The future first president’s famous boat ride was immortalized in an iconic 22-foot-wide painting entitled ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’. Almost as interesting as the actual feat itself is the story behind the artwork.” PERHAPS THE MOST celebrated…

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War Through a Lens — Roger Fenton and the Birth of Battlefield Photography

“Over the course of the war, Fenton was able to capture more than 360 exposures, most in encampments, in the harbour and surrounding countryside.” By Frederick J. Chiaventone IN OCTOBER OF 1862, Mathew Brady exhibited…

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The Marching Dead — World War One and the Cinematic Zombie Apocalypse

“Horror took on a new meaning after the trenches and veteran’s accounts of the savagery they had experienced.” By W. Scott Poole NOV. 11, 2018 marked 100 years since the cessation of hostilities in the…

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