Category: People
The Russian Liberation Army – Meet the Legion of Soviet POWs Who Joined the Nazis to Fight Stalin
“Vlasov didn’t see himself as a traitor to Russia; he sought to liberate his homeland from the ruthless Stalin.” By Mari K. Eder IT WAS JUST after VE Day in May of 1945 when James…
Allen Dulles’ Secret War – Inside the Future CIA Chief’s Gambit for a German Surrender in Italy
“The case began when Italian intermediaries extended a peace feeler through Swiss intelligence. Time was of the essence.” By Nicholas Reynolds FORTY-NINE-YEAR-old Allen Welsh Dulles relished the challenge of being surrounded by the enemy. After…
The Darlan Agreement – How a Secret Pact With a Nazi Collaborator Helped Secure an Allied Victory in North Africa
“If Eisenhower ratified any agreement with Darlan, he’d be working with a man who had cultivated ties with Hitler.” By Robert Kofman ON NOV. 11, 1942, General Dwight Eisenhower, commander of Operation Torch, the Allied…
Napoleon’s Hundred Days — Bonaparte and His Army Once Commanded Europe; In the Lead-up to Waterloo, Neither Were Ready for War
“Horses, artillery, and muskets were all in desperately short supply. Hours of his frenetic, almost manic energies were poured into correcting this with pitifully little success.” In April of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was finished. A…
The Coal Black Sea – How a Shocking 1914 Naval Disaster Nearly Sank Winston Churchill
“The classified findings concluded that a submarine attack was inevitable, so Churchill hushed them up.” By Stuart Heaver JUST SIX WEEKS into the First World War, three British armoured cruisers, HMS Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy,…
Hindenburg and Hitler — How Germany’s War-Hero President Set the Stage for a Nazi Takeover
“The Nazis moved swiftly to consolidate their dictatorship in the first months of 1933. In this, Hindenburg was a willing collaborator.” By Alex Clifford A ‘GOOD GERMAN,’ an honourable Prussian solider and the last bulwark…
