Meet Charles Upham — The New Zealander Who Won Two Victoria Crosses in WW2
“Upham was wounded three times in the next two days, but refused to leave the front line.” By Rafe McGregor CHARLES UPHAM is usually referred to as either ‘New Zealand’s war hero’ or the ‘outstanding…
WarGen Needs You! – Open-Source Memory Project Seeks Volunteers to Record WW2 Vets’ Stories
“Our aim is to have the testimonies of veterans from all around the world.” OF THE 16 MILLION Americans who fought in World War Two, fewer than 620,000 are still alive today. Their average age…
Microscopic Enemies – Five Epidemics that Destroyed Armies
“From ancient times right up to the 21st Century, militaries either in garrison or on campaign have had to do battle with disease.” THE ANCIENT GREEK city-state of Athens was in a fight to the death against…
When Oscar Goes to War – Academy Award-Winning Films for the Military History Crowd
“In honour of the Academy Awards, MHN is offering up this salute to the war films that won Best Picture.” DID YOU KNOW that a war movie won the first Best Picture Oscar ever? The…
The U.S. Civil War – A Window Into the Apocalypse of World War One
“The slaughter on the Western Front was the culmination of a ‘tactical evolution’ that could be traced back as far as the American Civil War. Yet few, if any, took the time to digest those…
The Third Reich’s Fifth Column – 12 Germans Who Stood Up to the Nazis
“You did not bear the shame. You resisted.” TODAY, THE BENDLERBLOCK is an innocuous looking office building in the Berlin’s Tiergarten district. But in 1944, the site was a key army headquarters. It was also ground-zero for…
