Operation Accolade – How Britain’s Elite Long Range Desert Group Met Disaster in the Aegean
“The Dodecanese operations were just a sideshow, still not widely known in World War Two military history. Yet for those who served and died there, it was no sideshow; the cost was high on all…
Otto Rahn – Meet the Nazi ‘Indiana Jones’ Behind the Third Reich’s Hunt for the Holy Grail
“In the insane world of Nazi pseudo-academia, Rahn became a celebrity, highly sought-after for lectures and speaking engagements.” By Alexander Zakrzewski AMONG THE casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic is the long-awaited fifth instalment of the…
The Automedon Incident – How a Captured Freighter Carrying a Trove of Secret Documents Changed the Course of WW2
“The papers helped propel the Japanese Empire to war with the United States and ultimately to its own destruction.” By Stephen Robinson ON NOV. 11, 1940, a lookout on the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis spotted…
The Battle of Bennington – How a Little-Known Frontier Clash Altered the Course of the Revolutionary War
“The Battle of Bennington by any standard had been a minor sideshow, but a sideshow that nevertheless had dramatic strategic consequences.” By Jim Stempel DURING THE afternoon of Aug. 16, 1777, the skies finally cleared…
HMCS Skeena – Meet One of the Toughest Warships of the Battle of the Atlantic
“As experienced and professional a destroyer as any of them on the North Atlantic run.” By James Brun HIS MAJESTY’S Canadian Ship Skeena was a River-class destroyer and one of the first two ships built…
Great Escapes – Seven British Armies That Evaded Total Annihilation
“There is something to celebrate in the stubborn tenacity that has seen the country’s army out of so many near-disasters.” By Douglas Brown BRITAIN’S ARMIES have had a curious habit of transforming battlefield defeats into…
