Category: Odd Facts
Executive Order 9066 — How Racial Hatred Led to the Imprisonment of American Citizens in World War Two
“Executive Order 9066 destroyed the hard work of an entire generation. With the movement of a pen, irreparable damage had been done, and some would never recover.” By George Yagi Jr. FOLLOWING THE ATTACK on…
Ernest Hemingway’s Secret War – Was America’s Foremost Writer Really a Spy?
“Thanks to newly revealed documents, this amazing story can now be told in its entirety for the first time.” By Nicholas Reynolds ERNEST HEMINGWAY was one of the most celebrated and influential writers of the…
Butcher’s Bill — Filmmaker Counts the Bloody Cost of World War Two
“Halloran tabulates the death toll suffered by the conflict’s many warring nations in a way that brings sobering new perspective to the war.” JOSEPH STALIN ONCE remarked that the death of one man is a tragedy…
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…
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…
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Seven Military Disasters That Took Place on Friday the 13th
THINK YOU’RE HAVING an unlucky Friday the 13th? Well, whatever misfortune befalls you in the next 24 hours, it will more than likely pale in comparison to these famous (and not so famous) disasters from…
