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Waffen-Gebirgsjaeger Divisionen der SS 1940-45
Gebirgsjaeger, Mountain troops, were supremely fit light infantry trained for mountain warfare supported by light calibre artillery and...
The advance of German Army XXXXVIII Corps from crossing the Bug River to the fall of Uman 1941-2
The sudden push into enemy territory, the rapid evacuation of an area and the immediate exploitation of one's own success and the taking...
America in Eyewrack, only Aristophanes could capture the strangeness of the US neoconservatives!
Donald Rumsfeld with Saddam Hussein, February 2003. The US, long engaged with Iraq, armed Iraq during the 8 year Iran-Iraq war. Oil drove...
Colonel Grierson's Union Cavalry Brigade raid on Confederate Mississippi, Spring 1863.
Union horse soldiers rode south to destroy the railroads crucial to the supply lines of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg which was...
T.K.Whitaker, 1916-2017, the architect of modern Ireland
Born in Rostrevor, Co Down in 1916 and raised in Drogheda, Co Louth he played an immensely influential role in the economic, social and...
Eismeerfront, Arctic Front, German Mountain Corps Combat Operations Norway to capture Murmansk, 1941
An examination of the attack on the Soviet Union using the above map shows how the assault on the Murmansk railway line from Rovaniemi to...
Arabs - a Three Thousand Year History
This is a 3,000 year history of people, tribes and empires, the earliest mention of Arabs in 853 BC led to their sudden appearance in the...
Miracle at the Litza River, Russia, Hitler's first defeat on the Eastern Front
In the early summer of 1941 a select unit of German mountain soldiers commanded by General Eduard Dietl set out in the far north of...
Imperial powers colonised Asian countries
Imperial Britain began trading opium with Canton, China. The Chinese Emperor observing the effect of opium on the Chinese people banned...
Vitebsk, the Fight and Destruction of 3rd Panzer Army
Otto Heidkamper, Chief of Staff of Georg-Hans Reinhardt's 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Centre stationed near Smolensk and Vitebsk from...
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