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Forschungsmitarbeiter Mitch Williamson is a technical writer with an interest in military and naval affairs. He has published articles in Cross & Cockade International and Wartime magazines. He was research associate for the Bio-history Cross in the Sky, a book about Charles ‘Moth’ Eaton’s career, in collaboration with the flier’s son, Dr Charles S. Eaton. He also assisted in picture research for John Burton’s Fortnight of Infamy. Mitch is now publishing on the WWW various specialist websites combined with custom website design work. He enjoys working and supporting his local C3 Church. “Curate and Compile“
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Medieval Weapons 19 Min Read

Da Vinci’s Military Thoughts

Military architecture, the design of defense Military architecture today is a highly specialized field. Can you imagine a painter with…

Battle Cossack 11 Min Read

Dresden: Another Victory Without a Future

The false Congress of Prague afforded the new members of the Coalition time to rebuild their militaries to create a…

Cossack France History Piracy Russia 10 Min Read

Napoleon out of Russia 1812

The Russian campaign was the decisive turning-point of the Napoleonic Wars that ultimately led to Napoleon’s defeat and exile on…

Biography Cossack 19 Min Read

First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards Part I

The Ordeal of Captain Roeder: from the Diary of an Officer in the First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards During the…

Armies Biography Cossack 22 Min Read

First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards Part II

The Captain did not travel long in the Colonel’s chaise. On the 23rd, when the cold weather set in once…

Air Warfare Aircraft 13 Min Read

Strategic Air Power In The Cold War

A Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear parting the clouds. Manned aircraft offered certain unique advantages. First, they possessed inherent flexibility, in…

AFV Russia 3 Min Read

Ural Typhoon

Ural with added pyrotechnics stars in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s1xe22 Beginning of the End. The Ural-63095 Typhoon was developed…

Biography Prussia 5 Min Read

Freiherr Johann Adolph von Thielmann

(1765-1824) Saxon, Russian, and Prussian general. As a reward for his service in the Battle of Borodino, he was made…

British SpecForce 8 Min Read

The “XD” Operation

Cdr Goodenough and demolition team on Venomous, 15 May 1940. In May 1940, the German Army invaded the Netherlands and…

Medieval Mongol Russia 16 Min Read

The Mongol Conquest of the Rus

Mongol Warriors of the Golden Horde The Mongol conquest profoundly affected the natural evolution of medieval, or Kievan, Russia, but…