Operation Foxley – Inside the Abortive Allied Plot to Assassinate the Führer
“The best plan SOE could come up with involved using a sniper to shoot Hitler on his regular morning stroll.” By Eric Lee IT HAS NOW been nearly a quarter century since the British government…
Devil’s Bargain – Inside the Soviet Union’s Pre-WW2 Cooperation with Germany
“Putin’s myths hide some awful truths: Without the long-standing collaboration between Berlin and Moscow in the days and even years leading up to the invasion of Poland, history would have undoubtedly been very different.” By…
The Tragic End of HMCS Margaree – How A Freak Atlantic Convoy Accident Cost the Lives of 142 Allied Sailors
“Most of the crew were asleep in their mess decks in the forward part of the ship, which drifted clear of the after part, capsized and sank in under a minute’s time. Every man in…
The Dartmoor Massacre — Why an 1815 Slaughter of American POWs in a British Prison Was All But Forgotten
“The prisoners were convinced that the events of April 6, would live forever in infamy. One told his diary that night that their ordeal would be remembered with the same reverence and fury as the…
Three Moments That Might Have Brought an Early End to the U.S. Civil War
By Iain MacGregor IN JANUARY of 1861, the U.S. Army numbered 17,000 men. These troops were primarily spread across the new western territories. A small number of federal forts and arsenals were sprinkled throughout the…
The Great Zeppelin Raid – How a Devastating 1916 Airship Attack Forced Britain to Rethink its Defences
“A historian has dubbed the night, ‘one of the biggest fiascos in British air defence history.’ The population of the Midlands now realized just how defenceless they were in the face of aerial attack, leading…
