‘Hacksaw Ridge’ — MHN Shares Preview of Upcoming WW2 Blockbuster (VIDEO)
HACKSAW RIDGE, a new World War Two film from Oscar winning actor/director Mel Gibson, is set to burst onto screens next week. The film, which won rave reviews at the at the Venice Film Festival last month, tells…
The Crimean War – Seven Essential Facts About Victorian Britain’s Most Peculiar Conflict
“I view the Crimean War as a very important historical event and find it puzzling that it’s not used more frequently as a canvas for historical novels.” By M.J. Neary THE CRIMEAN WAR (1853-1856) is…
Two Years a Slave – Frenchman Recalls His Time as Forced Labourer in Nazi Germany
“I would be seized by a feeling of rage and the desire to kill, but I felt powerless.” The Nazi war machine was powered by slaves. An estimated 20 per cent of Hitler’s wartime workforce was…
American Turncoat – Meet the Only U.S. Army Officer to Defect to the Nazis in WW2
“The 23-year-old U.S. Army second lieutenant stole an unarmed reconnaissance plane from an Allied airbase in southern Italy and flew it into enemy territory as part of a bizarre bid to change sides.” THE NAME…
After the Fall – Saigon Resident Recalls Terrifying Day of Communist Takeover
“To this day, I am still able to recall the terror of the fall of Saigon. The appalling threat from the communists is still vivid in my mind.” For most Americans, their country’s long ordeal in…
The TT Pistol – The Soviet Wartime Relic That’s Loved and Feared the World Over
“A senior staff member of Russia’s Museum of the Armed Forces, Sergei Plotnikov, calls the TT ‘one of the best pistols ever.’” Story By Surplus Store IN THE EARLY 1920s, following the end of the…
