Category: Odd Facts
The Maginot Line – 11 Fascinating Facts About France’s Ill-Fated Fortifications
“The Maginot Line has come to symbolize everything wrong with the Allied strategy in the years leading up to the Second World War… But was it really the disaster many have suggested?” WORLD WAR ONE…
Napoleon Exposed! – 10 More Strange Facts About History’s Most Famous Conqueror
“In his common intercourse of life, and his familiar conversation, the Emperor mutilated the names most familiar to him.” By Shannon Selin FURTHER TO MY previous article, “10 Interesting Facts about Napoleon Bonaparte,” here are 10…
Operation “China Show” – The Top Secret Mission of Germany’s Zeppelin L 59
“The mission would be a risky one – no airship had ever flown such a distance.” TO DESCRIBE Germany’s Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck as a thorn in the side of the British Empire would be something of…
Operation Pied Piper — Six Amazing Facts About Britain’s Wartime Evacuees
“In all, more than 3.5 million Britons, about seven per cent of the population, became evacuees during the war.” By Gillian Mawson DURING THE First World War, German Zeppelin and bomber raids on Great Britain…
Warfare After Alexander – The Armies of the Early Hellenistic Era
“By the time of the Diadokhoi, Hellenistic warfare had become a multi-national, multi-disciplined, complex affair.” By David Grant ANY APPRECIATION OF warfare in the Hellenistic Era requires an understanding of the military prowess of Alexander…
High Value Targets – The Plans to Assassinate The Top Wartime Leaders
“Hitler, FDR, Churchill, Stalin and Mussolini were all targets of elaborate assassination schemes.” TO SAY THAT the failed July 20, 1944, assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler has been well documented is an understatement. The conspiracy, which was…
