Thomas Andrews Junior went down in history as the designer of the world’s most famous passenger…
Kategoria: 20th Century
Mogadishu Snipers: The Story of Gordon & Shughart
On October 3, 1993, as two American Black Hawk helicopters crashed over Mogadishu, Sergeants Gary Gordon…
The murder of Davis Timmerman
In September 1941, the body of Davis Timmerman was found in a small store in South…
Otto Kretschmer: The Deadliest U-Boat Ace
Seven torpedoes, five ships sunk, and a sixth damaged—all in a single salvo. It was a…
Klaus Hornig: Officer Who Resisted Nazi Crimes
Nikolaus Ernst Hornig, known as Klaus, was a German police officer and lawyer who, in the…
Jan Bonekamp & Hannie Schaft: Dutch Resistance Fighters:
Police officer Willem Ragut always carried two pistols and was able to use them even while…
Lidice Massacre: Why Nazis Erased a Czech Village.
When Reinhard Heydrich, Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, died in a Prague hospital on June 4,…
Bakhretdin Khakimo: Lost Soviet Soldier in Afghanistan.
In 1980, a young soldier from Samarkand arrived in Afghanistan as part of the Soviet military…
Christian X: The King Who Defied Hitler.
Christian X entered history as a sovereign who refused to leave his country in the face…
Operation Kiebitz. U-Boat Commanders’ Daring Escape Plan
In the autumn of 1943, one of the most spectacular intelligence duels of World War II…