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In the west, Imperial Germany launched the still debated Schlieffen Plan invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg, and France, a blueprint for a rapid victory on which all the hopes of the German general staff rested. This encompassed a vast turning movement through Belgium that was to strike France in a “great right wheel” to concentrate all German forces in the west.…
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Zenobia of Palmyra, 273 AD – Women War Queens by Gambargin Palmyra at its greatest extent in 271 AD. King…
At the beginning of the Second World War American radar technology and night fighter development was considerably inferior to that…
On the extreme left flank of the front, Army Group North of necessity had to follow Hitler’s preference for static…
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Some of the crew of the type IX D2 German submarine U-198 (commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Burkhard Heusinger von…
By the middle of April 1945, Marshal Koniev’s First Ukrainian Front had penetrated deep into the eastern half of Czechoslovakia,…
Senior Allied commanders celebrate at Rheims shortly after General Eisenhower had addressed the German mission who had just signed the…
The universal principles of supplying war have been applied in three major periods: the long period of history when war…
Grand Harbour, Malta. Furthest away is the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Victorious (R38). In the centre, steaming right to left, is the Italian Navy’s guided missile destroyer Intrepido (D571). In the foreground is a U.S. Navy Casa Grande-class dock landing ship.. The Royal Navy was the only fleet other…
The Union had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war; the ratio grew steadily in favor of the Union. By any measure of military strength, the South should not have gone to war against the North in 1861. The odds were too heavily stacked against…
Between 190 and the build-up to Actium in the latter half of the 30s, warships larger than “sixes” disappeared from the fleets of the Mediterranean powers. Rome had methodically destroyed her major rivals at sea and emerged from the war with Antiochus as the undisputed naval power of the Mediterranean.…
Hindenburg and Ludendorff at Tannenberg (painting by Hugo Vogel) Fully expecting a short war, Paul von Hindenburg paced restlessly in Hanover as seven German armies swept into France, Luxembourg, and Belgium in August. As the Schlieffen Plan unfolded in the west, Russia mobilized weeks earlier than predicted and in mid-August…
Preparations for the campaign were extensive and probably occupied at least a year. Ultimately nine legions – at full strength or at least in the form of a substantial vexillation – were concentrated on the Danube to take part in or support the operations. Other legions sent smaller vexillations and…
Prince Shōtoku flanked by younger brother (left: Prince Eguri) and first son (right: Prince Yamashiro), drawn by unknown author Founding Father’ was suddenly delivered of him without effort. He was able to speak as soon as he was born, and was so wise when he grew up that he could…
The first recorded use of handguns in the Principalities is in the XVth century. The Wallachian Voivode Vlad the Impaler and the Moldavian Voivode Stefan the Great successfully used handheld arquebuses in several battles including the Battle of Valea Alba in 1476 and at the Battle of Vaslui in 1475…
HMS “Royal George” first rate ship of the line launch at Woolwich in 1756 ‘I was in great pain lest the enemy should have escaped you . . . Allow me to add that no man in England can be more pleased with your good fortune, nor more rejoice to…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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