The battle commenced on April 16th, 1945, with a massive artillery barrage and the relentless assault of the Soviet forces.We remembered reading about it in the Russian German Museum, where the population of Berlin could see the horizon turning red due to all the explosions. However, the defen...
He turns to see something at first curious, then increasingly alarming. One of the King’s soldiers in a scarlet and black coat, a sword in his hand, marching up over the rise in the road. Beside him, a crew of men, also in red coats, dragging an artillery piece. The groan of the...
My main reason for attending was my great respect for her, in light of all of her activism on behalf of the German people and for Our Fallen over many years, and indeed, for all of humanity against our common enemy or “our predator” as she calls them.Her contention that the “Holoca...
With the death of the duc d’Angoulême in 1844 the legitimist wing of the monarchists proclaimed him the rightful king, Henry V, but his rights were not recognized by the various French governments during the next two decades. After the disaster of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and...
Having survived German artillery, poison gas & friendly fire, Evan barely survives his hospital ship’s sinking by a German U-boat. Left with amnesia, he no longer remembers who he is. Crossroads of Empire Book 2 by Michael J. Cooper ...
For history buffs, this is a must-read. It’s a nice break from great man histories and grand-scale narratives that gives the reader a look at the lives of people who would not seem out of place if they were characters in Game of Thrones. ...
Through the war years it served as both a munitions factory, a drydock for construction of cargo ships, escort ships, and kaitens, and possibly also as a POW slave labor camp At 8:15 on August 6 1945 the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare detonated over Hiroshima, obliterating...