Warfare History
10 of History’s Most Remarkable Hoaxes and Forgeries
Hoaxes are falsehoods deliberately concocted to masquerade as the truth and can range from the trivial, amounting to little more…
This Woman Bought a Tank and Went on a Rampage Against the Nazis after this Traumatic Event
What would you do if the person you loved was killed? What if the people who did it then started…
The Man they Couldn’t Cage: How One Officer Escaped During Both World Wars
During both the First and Second World Wars it was the duty of all captured Allied officers to attempt to…
12 British Civil Wars Your History Books Kept Quiet
British history is often presented as one of unbroken stability and continuity. This the land that never had a revolution,…
Lyudmila Pavlichenko: The Incredible Story of the Deadliest Female Sniper in History
What do you do if you're a young student at a university and the Nazis suddenly invade your country? Do…
The Battle of Leipzig: What You Don’t Know About the Fall of Napoleon
Up until the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon and his Grand Armee looked invincible. However, his invasion of Russia proved disastrous,…
His Darkest Hour: 12 Times Winston Churchill Was Far From Being a Hero
Winston Churchill is one of Britain’s most revered figures. In fact, in the eyes of the majority of the public,…
Big Bastards: 10 of History’s Most Influential Illegitimate Children
Throughout most of history and across most cultures, calling somebody a "bastard" has been used as an insult to stigmatize…
10 Things You Never Knew About Timur: One of History’s Biggest Monsters
Commonly known as Tamerlane in Europe, Timur was one of the most dominant military commanders in human history. He was…
The Scientists History Abandoned: The Cruel Reality of Being a Scholarly Woman or Refugee Fleeing the Holocaust to America
The USA has often been celebrated as a refuge for the displaced. The period before and during the Second World…