Month: October 2012
Operation Unthinkable — Inside Churchill’s Proposed 1945 Surprise Attack on the Soviets
“It is to an early and speedy showdown and settlement with Russia that we must now turn our hopes.” WHILE THE WORLD celebrated the defeat of Nazism in May of 1945, one of the architects of…
Big Shots – History’s Largest Cannons, Mortars and Super Guns
“Iraq’s ‘super gun’, while certainly mammoth, was just one in a long series of ultra-heavy artillery pieces that have appeared throughout history. Consider these other ‘big shots’.” FEW TODAY LIKELY remember the name Gerard Bull. Yet…
Star Wars – 30 Celebrities and What They Did in Wartime
ON THE NIGHT of Sept. 23, 1942, a flight of RAF Halifax bombers from No. 76 squadron struck a German harbour facility on the Baltic Sea. During the mission, one of the British planes was…
Move Over, Sun Tzu! — West Point Offers Military History Reading List
According to the American current affairs journal, Foreign Policy, the U.S. military academy at West Point made headlines for releasing it’s list of required reading. Check it out at the link above. Speaking of landmark…