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I got the idea for this thread on holiday in Paris the other week. I visited Père Lachaise cemetery and saw the graves of many famous people. The majority were French of course but there was quite a few famous non-French people buried there also. One of the more unusual burials is Sidney Smith...

Operation Biting – The Red Devils Win Their Spurs Why Bruneval? When I was young my relatives would buy me an annual for Christmas. This usually involved “boy’s own” style comic stories about war, sporting prowess or superheroes. As I grew up I collected other annuals...

Merseyside is an area over 3000 miles from Washington and yet its impact on the American Civil War was quite considerable. This article will attempt to show why this was the case and what that impact was. Introduction Geographically the area lies alongside the Mersey estuary in North West...

I don't often start threads (except article ones) but here goes nothing... I've just been reading an excellent book on the battle of Arnhem, and figured I'd reccomend it to those on the forum interested in that part of history. Then I thought maybe others here might have books they've read...

Read most basic books about WW2 and the answer will be virtually guaranteed to be the same, Otto Skorzeny and a detachment of SS Paratroopers. This article which seeks not to offer an alternative answer to the question as such, but to shed some light on a part of the operation often ignored...

This is the story of the last real Fallschirmjäger drop of WW2 and how men with such elite reputations failed so badly during the Battle of the Bulge. First some background on the Fallschirmjäger. Background The Fallschirmjäger’s origins began in 1933 with Goering forming a small...

A short article with trivia about this popular period :) Napoleonic Trivia Austria Archduke Charles, the first man to defeat Emperor Napoleon on the field of battle was barely 5 feet tall and an epileptic. Karl Swarzenberg, the man who would lead the combined allied armies to...

Note: This is a diversion of a discussion in the lend lease thread. Though this topic is about PQ17 and a possible battle, feel free to discuss other ships and engagements such as the best battleship ever. My vote goes with the Iowa class :) Uhmmm no. The American 16" guns such as those...

A upcoming TV series on terrestial UK television concentrates on the 1300s, titling it as the worst century to be alive in (presumably from the trailers it is mainly about Europe). What do the Civ Fanatics think of this? :)

Two photographs of Doc Holliday John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday is one of the most enigmatic figures from the Wild West. Was he a gambler and gunman who murdered many a man in his time and was involved in many illegal acts, or was he an educated southern gentleman, a true friend and good man...

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A story of how Israel first armed itself Part Two: The Air Force To form an army from scratch is not really very hard, just sufficient weapons and ammunition, a little motivation and elementary training, and the beginings of the army will take shape. An air force though...

Tales from the Wild West part one: Kidology Just about the only proven picture of Billy the kid known to exist. Note that the picture is reversed, something that lead to the myth that he was in fact left handed. Billy the kid, also known as William Bonney. The name is widely known...

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A story of how Israel first armed itself Part One: The Armoured Corps The history of the Israeli army is not a long one, but is certainly one filled with skill and finessee that has often defied the odds. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) and Israeli Air Force (IAF) have...

I would like to direct you to the works of a certain Jack T Chick, a rather.... outlandish christian cartoonist. http://www.chick.com/ I came across the site after reading a "rant" by the PVP cartoonist about the topic. Many of Chick's works are full of... well they're full of innacuracies...

An article by Neil Holmes/Private Hudson I’m sure the battle of Waterloo, as one of the most famous in western history needs little introduction, but here goes anyway. Fought on the road between between the Belgian/French Border town of Charleoi and the present capital of Brussels the...

When discussing a topic on another forum about greatest generals I happened to remark on Alexander and said he was Greek. This immediately brought a stinging reply from a member who's from the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (at least I think that's what it's called) who called me...