“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…
The Spanish Flu – 10 Facts About the 1918 Pandemic That Killed More People Than WW1
“While historians have catalogued the conflict’s causes and effects for a century now, the pandemic has largely fallen into history’s dustbin. Yet its effects were just as consequential and far reaching as the war itself….
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’…
