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…
Meet John C.H. Lee — The Forgotten Logistical Mastermind Behind the Allied Invasion of Europe
“Throughout the brutal summer and fall of 1944, Lee kept the Allied troops fed, their guns loaded and their tanks gassed up” No invasion in history can match the mind-boggling scale of D-Day. The Allies’…
Wide-Angle History — War Museum Shares Panoramic Images of WW1
“Panoramic photography was a popular technique dating back to the late 19th Century.” MORE THAN 600,000 Canadians served in the First World War – an impressive feat for a country with a population of just…
Passed Over – Why Was U.S. Navy Ace Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa Denied the Medal of Honor?
“Swede’s intercept came at a strategically significant moment in the Pacific War, essentially salvaging the Allied offensive timetable.” By Ted Edwards IT WAS DURING the pivotal Oct. 26, 1942 carrier battle of the Santa Cruz…
