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Washington News’ List of Best Civil War Films
The American newspaper The Washington News published a list of the 15 best U.S. Civil War movies of all time this weekend. It includes flicks from the silent era right up to the present. Check out…
A Brief History of Wartime PTSD — From Ancient Greece to Afghanistan
“For centuries, even millennia, eye-witnesses of conflict have suffered from PTSD. Consider these early accounts.” WHILE THE TERM post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) wasn’t officially coined until 1980, psychologists, both civilian and military, have long been aware of the…
We Fought a Zoo — Animal Weapons Throughout History
“As recently as the Second World War, militaries weaponized animals.” HUMANS HAVE BEEN domesticating animals for use in combat since the first warriors of Eurasia rode into battle on horses around 3000 BCE. But what…
First Blood – History’s Earliest Recorded Military Conflicts
WARFARE IS AS OLD AS CIVILIZATION ITSELF. In fact, experts believe that the first armed conflicts were fought more than 10,000 years ago by prehistoric city-states in present day Syria, Jordan and Iraq. These early contests…
The Forgotten Armies of the Western Front — 1914 to 1918
“There were other, smaller, often overlooked contingents to the Western Front that history has largely forgotten. Here are their stories.” EIGHT MILLION MEN fought for the British Army during the First World War. More than half of…
Star Wars – 30 Celebrities and What They Did in Wartime
ON THE NIGHT of Sept. 23, 1942, a flight of RAF Halifax bombers from No. 76 squadron struck a German harbour facility on the Baltic Sea. During the mission, one of the British planes was…
