A French Tragedy
Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws, Novelist Irene Nemirovsky, died at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Successful in her day, she is now best known f…
U.S. Mortars of World War II
When history is visceral and experiential, it is typically more compelling and engaging than when it is taken out of the human context. The su…
Tank Training Site in England
Fritton Lake and the surrounding land was used by the 79th Armoured Division as a training and experimental site from 1943 through to 1947. It was used…
From Gliders To The Bois Jacques
It’s a grainy, relatively unknown photograph of a bunch of dirty, unshaven soldiers standing around a makeshift Christmas tree in the middle of a snowy…
Dunkirk From The Air
By May 26 1940, around 250,000 British troops, the rump of what remained of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), were surrounded in the French port…
The Modified M3 Grease Gun in WWII
The .45 caliber submachine gun M3 is often indicated as being a success story of small arms design and development during World War II. Born o…
In Silent Tribute
IN SILENT TRIBUTE- Back in 2002 while writing Tonight We Die as Men (TWDAM) with Roger Day we described a plane crash on June 6, 1944, near a small iso…
Shooting a Vickers Machine Gun at 240 frames per second
The Vickers machine gun has what is perhaps the greatest reputation among recoil operated belt-fed water-cooled machine guns. Adopted by the U.K. in 1…
The Escape Route of Joachim Peiper- Interactive
“After daybreak cleared, Peiper pointed to a fir tree, sparkling brilliantly in the sun. “Major, he said with a sardonic smile, “the other night I prom…
Operation Stösser: Kampfgruppe Von der Heydte in the Ardennes (Part II)
In picturesque Monschau– famous for its slate-roofed half-timbered houses– exhausted Fallschirmjäger desiring to surrender to U.S. forces sought out t…