Bringing Out the Dead – Who Cleared the Corpses from Napoleonic Battlefields?
“After they had been stripped, the bodies were either burned, buried, or left in the open to decompose, a process aided by vultures, wolves and other scavengers.” By Shannon Selin SOMEWHERE IN THE range of 3.5…
“Big Wisky” – 12 Amazing Facts About the Battleship USS Wisconsin
“Entering service just as the supremacy of battleships was giving way to aircraft carriers, the heavy guns of the four Iowa-class vessels were still unmatched.” By Amy Waters Yarsinske BERTHED TODAY AT Nauticus, the national maritime…
Landsknechts – Meet the Most Infamous Mercenaries of the Renaissance
“One chronicler remarked that the devil refused to let landsknechts into hell because he was so afraid of them.” By Richard Anderton DURING THE 16th Century the most feared soldiers on Europe’s battlefields were the…
Wars of Words – Ten Must-Read Memoirs from the First World War
“A person could spend a lifetime poring over nothing but memoirs from the period and never hope to read all of them. Yet, there are a number of works from the Great War that stand…
The Woolwich Arsenal and the Race to Modernize Britain’s Armaments Industry in WW1
“The reality of war on a continental scale soon exposed the total inadequacy of Woolwich as manufacturer of guns and ammunition.” By Phil Hamlyn Williams THE BRITISH ARMY of August 1914 was small and lightly…
‘The Neptune Monograph’ – Historians Launch Campaign to Restore a Trove of Top Secret D-Day Documents
“Only a few men saw the Neptune Monograph before D-Day and after the war, it almost disappeared from history.” IT WAS ONE of the most closely guarded secrets of the Second World War – a…
