historian

Suez 1956: How One Phone Call From Washington Bankrupted the British Empire in a Weekend

In 1956, Britain launched a secret military invasion of Egypt to seize the Suez Canal. Their soldiers were winning. Their[…]

In the summer of nineteen oh five two men held a private conversation in Tokyo that the world would not[…]

The images and flags of Nazi Germany are banned in modern Germany, except for use in films, tv, or museum[…]

One hundred eighty feet beneath the North Sea, a survey team’s sonar has detected something that should not exist. A[…]

10 SS Officers Who Were Never Found “How do you make a monster disappear? You give him a new name,[…]

This reconstructed speech, “Hitler Speaks on Germany’s Economic Hardships After World War I (In English),” presents one of Adolf Hitler’s[…]

This video presents Adolf Hitler’s 1 April 1939 speech, delivered at the launch of the German battleship Tirpitz in Wilhelmshaven.[…]

The Battle of Vaslui (1475) – one of the greatest military upsets in history. Prince Stephen III of Moldavia crushed[…]

The Battle of Magersfontein was one of the most shocking defeats of the Anglo-Boer War — a brutal ambush that[…]

The South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War) of 1899-1902 between Britain and the two Boer Republics of[…]