Miniature wargames are a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurines into play, which was invented at the beginning of the 19th century in Prussia. The miniatures used represent troops or vehicles (such as tanks, chariots, aircraft, ships, etc.). The games may reflect ...
S1.E2 ∙ The End of IllusionTue, Sep 8, 2009 Years 1938-39. The Munich Agreement of appeasement over Czechoslovakia. The partition and defeat of Poland. Sea vulnerability of ships to bombers. Britain and France ensconced at the Maginot line. 8.8/10 (9)Rate Top-rated S1.E3 ∙ The Wa...
Blurb: Set against the backdrop of WW1, Mayfair 100 is the telephone number for a small specially-formed crime busting team based in a house in Mayfair. London, 1915. Just 10 months into the First World War, the City is flooded with women taking over the work vacated by men in the ...
List of the latest war movies in 2024 and the best war movies of 2023 and earlier. Top war movies to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or in cinema's right now.
Stefan Zweigis a writer unjustly forgotten by history. His “The World of Yesterday” (a nonfiction work) is such an evocative portrait of pre-WW1 Europe than it permanently changed the way I perceive Western history. His “The Post-Office Girl” is an understated and excellent novella. ...
My grandfather was a young European immigrant that was drafted into WW1 and sent to France and was put in the trenches, literally. He talked about it very little. I recently spent time in some Veterans Hospitals and talked to soldiers who were part of the 'War on Terror'. It changed th...
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II by Louise Borden 1997, 30 pages, grades 2-4 A true story from World War II of the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers stranded at this small French port during the German Blitzkrieg. The British had to cal...