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Modern Day Pilots To Refly Secret Wartime Mission
Last week, we shared the story of the joint Anglo-Soviet invasion and occupation of Iran in 1941. The operation, which was planned just weeks after the Nazi invasion of Russia, was intended to open a…
Disputed Islands — The Many Battles for the Falklands
A flotilla of warships, carrying several hundred troops is dispatched from Argentina. It’s objective: to expel any and all British inhabitants from the disputed Falkland Islands, which lay 300 miles off the east coast of…
U.K. Museum Lists 20 Greatest Battles in British History
Question: What do Naseby, Quebec City and the Imjin River have in common? Answer: Each one was the setting for a landmark battle from British history. These three famous dust-ups are included in a recently…
A “Neutral” Power? – American Involvement in WW2 Before Pearl Harbor
“Despite Washington’s official position of neutrality, in the weeks and months leading up to Dec. 7, 1941, American forces clashed with the Germans and Japanese.” THE JAPANESE SURPRISE attack on Pearl Harbor may have officially propelled…
Get Out of Jail Free — How Allied Flyers Used Monopoly to Escape From German POW Camps
“The games containing these secret escape kits were unwittingly distributed to POWs as part of care packages right under the nose of German prison guards.” FOR CAPTURED flyers in World War Two, Monopoly was more…
Dying in a Winter Wonderland — Unearthing the Hidden Cause of Napoleon’s Stunning Reversal in Russia
Two hundred years ago today, the last of Napoleon’s Grande Armee staggered out of Russia frostbitten, starving and half dead. The ramshackle column of fewer than 50,000 scarecrows was all that remained of the seemingly…
