Category: Odd Facts
Animals at War – Check Out These Amazing Tales of Four-Legged Heroes from Military History
“When humans charge into battle, invariably animals go with them.” By Robin Hutton ANIMALS HAVE BEEN a part of war for as long as humans have fought each other. From Hannibal’s elephants and the camels…
Bringing Out the Dead – Who Cleared the Corpses from Napoleonic Battlefields?
“After they had been stripped, the bodies were either burned, buried, or left in the open to decompose, a process aided by vultures, wolves and other scavengers.” By Shannon Selin SOMEWHERE IN THE range of 3.5…
Spitfire Nations — The British Weren’t the Only Ones To Fly the Iconic Warplane in Combat
“Americans, Soviets and a host of other countries operated the famous fighter plane during World War Two and in the Post War Era.” IT’S DIFFICULT TO overstate the reverence with which the British regard the Supermarine…
WW2’s Forgotten Front – 10 Chilling Facts About the Sino-Japanese War
“The conflict, which was fought between China’s competing Nationalists and Communist factions on one side and Imperial Japan on the other, stands as one of the darkest and deadliest chapters in human history.” By Jack…
Napoleon’s Middle-East Quagmire — Amazing Facts About the Disastrous Egypt Campaign
“Instead of seeing Napoleon’s army as liberators, the Egyptians revolted and the French found themselves cut off and engaged in a vicious insurgency far from home.” By David Smethhurst NAPOLEON BONAPARTE’S Egypt campaign began in…
Inside Churchill’s Spy Files – Five Top Secret Intelligence Operations That Helped the Allies Win WW2
“GARBO proved to be the most successful double agent of all time.” By Nigel West IN APRIL OF 1943, the British Security Service (MI5) agreed to begin briefing the Prime Minister on its most classified…
