To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine ...

Under cloudless blue skies, the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama hosts the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the United States. Most ...

The orphaned Philadelphia Austen was forced to seek for herself those objects of eighteenth-century womanhood: social esteem and financial independence. Her story is circumscribed ...

Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, ...

Mention the name ‘Brooklands’ to most people and you will either get a blank look or at best a recollection of it being something to do with motor racing. Very few will respond with knowledge of its ...

Heinkel He 111s on their way to attack targets in southern England. After the turning point on 15 September 1940, when it was clear that the RAF remained undefeated, Hitler postponed his proposed ...

When Hitler came to power in 1933 he promised the German people a technocratic state where science, technology and education would grow and flourish. Unfortunately, any attempts to achieve such a goal ...

In April 1945, American forces were sweeping eastwards toward Berlin, in part advancing across territory that would eventually become part of the Soviet Occupation Zone. As they advanced, US troops ...

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Shortly after the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor in late 1941, over 70,000 American and Filipino servicemen were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. What ensued for these young men is ...