Soon after the outbreak of World War I – he was then in his 50th year – he enlisted as a volunteer. Leaving behind his Jewish wife, Hannah, and their only daughter, Bertha, he became the military head ...
When the Western Front froze in 1914, Germany faced a stalemate. Captain Willie Roar’s experiments with small, fast assault ...
It’s September 12th, 1918 and at the controls of his SPAD S:XIII fighter is 2nd Lieutenant Frank Luke. He’s about to take ...
As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – and a century of armoured combat ...
None of the other commercial bidders could deliver a comparable range, Norway said.
Why First Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner called artillery fire on his own position during WW2 — and stopped 600 Germans[...] ...
They wore the red coat, but they spoke German. They were the only troops the Duke of Wellington trusted as[...] ...