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#EuropeRemembers – Campaign to Mark Next Year’s 75th Anniversary of D-Day Launches
“D-Day’s 75th anniversary will represent the last large-scale gathering of living soldiers, sailors and airmen who took part in the fight for Europe.” LAST WEEK’S commemorations of the anniversary of D-Day may now be over,…
Braddock’s Defeat — The Battle of Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
“Historians’ traditional emphasis on Braddock’s supposed arrogance has also obscured the immense historical consequences of his defeat.” By David L. Preston BY AUGUST OF 1755, grim details of the slaughter of Major General Edward Braddock’s…
“Crucible” – Museum Exhibit Showcases America’s Forgotten Heroes of 1918
“We share how the world changed forever through highly personal stories of the people who lived through it.” MORE U.S. CITIZENS were in uniform during the final bloody year of the First World War than…
Combat High – How Armies Throughout History Used Drugs to Make Soldiers Fight
“Drugs and warfare have always gone hand in hand – from Homeric warriors drinking wine and taking opium to Wehrmacht troops popping methamphetamines.” By Lukasz Kamienski THE PHILOSOPHER Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that the history…
Full Blast – How the High-Explosive Known as ‘RDX’ Helped the Allies Win WW2
“These Torpex heads carry an awful wallop.” SOME CALLED IT cyclonite, hexogen or even cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine. It was a key ingredient in Composition B, PE-4 and C-4. The British simply named it RDX. Yet regardless of…
The Ghost Raiders — How the Threat of Nazi Auxiliary Cruisers Caused Panic in the Far East
“The Allies logically feared that German freighters harbouring in Japan and elsewhere might be converted into armed auxiliary cruisers, ushering in a commerce raider war.” By Stephen Robinson THE MOMENT THE Second World War broke…
