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WAR HISTORY ONLINE Top stories of today [The Walking Wounded – How Warfare And Healthcare Advanced Together Through The Ages]( [The Walking Wounded – How Warfare And Healthcare Advanced Together Through The Ages]( By Guest Blogger Helen Fraser For War History Online It cannot be denied that war is responsible for huge numbers of deaths, and an awful lot… [Read more »]( [How The Royal Navy Fed Its Sailors Over 200 Years Ago]( [How The Royal Navy Fed Its Sailors Over 200 Years Ago]( An army marches on its stomach, and while a Navy sails on the sea, its sailors still need feeding. In the 1790s and early 1800s,… [Read more »]( [Donald Cook – The Only Marine to Be Awarded a Medal of Honor for Actions as a POW]( [Donald Cook – The Only Marine to Be Awarded a Medal of Honor for Actions as a POW]( To be clear, there have been multiple Marines who displayed inexplicable gallantry in combat warranting a Medal of Honor before they were subsequently captured. However,… [Read more »]( [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – The Curse Of The War Veteran, From Ancient Times To The Present Day]( [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – The Curse Of The War Veteran, From Ancient Times To The Present Day]( By Guest Blogger Helen Fraser For War History Online Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder or ‘PTSD’ is a very familiar term nowadays. We associate it most with war veterans and,… [Read more »]( [‘Lucky Luciano’ – The Father of Organized Crime Won His Freedom by Helping the US Government during WW2]( [‘Lucky Luciano’ – The Father of Organized Crime Won His Freedom by Helping the US Government during WW2]( War History Online Presents This Article By Guest Blogger Jack Hawkins It is often said that crime does not pay, and when Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano… [Read more »]( [The Many Different Opponents Faced by Victorian British Armies]( [The Many Different Opponents Faced by Victorian British Armies]( Maintaining your status as a global power is no easy thing. The British Victorian Army was one of the best equipped and most experienced in… [Read more »]( [D-Day – The Huge Numbers Involved in the Biggest Amphibious Invasion In History]( [D-Day – The Huge Numbers Involved in the Biggest Amphibious Invasion In History]( Here are the numbers that tell you everything you need to know about D-Day. 2 Mulberry Harbours: A raid on Dieppe had taught the British… [Read more »]( [Touching, Humbling, Eye-Opening – War Memorials Of The World]( [Touching, Humbling, Eye-Opening – War Memorials Of The World]( For an altogether touching, humbling and historically educational experience, do not miss out on these incredible war memorials found around the world. The Vietnam Veterans… [Read more »]( [After 39 Soviet Commandos Took Hill 3234 In Afghanistan, Not Even Hundreds Of Mujahedeen Could Dislodge Them]( [After 39 Soviet Commandos Took Hill 3234 In Afghanistan, Not Even Hundreds Of Mujahedeen Could Dislodge Them]( The Soviet-Afghan War, or the “Soviet Vietnam” as some political analysts called it, was one of the key points in which the decaying superpower came… [Read more »]( [With a Modified Aircraft Machinegun, Corporal Tony Stein Fired His Way Across Iwo Jima and Was Awarded the Medal of Honor]( [With a Modified Aircraft Machinegun, Corporal Tony Stein Fired His Way Across Iwo Jima and Was Awarded the Medal of Honor]( The ability to improvise, adapt, and overcome has long been a core ethos of the United States Marine. While one could find many examples from… [Read more »]( [The Jews In Finland Who Fought Together With The Germans: “We Had A Common Enemy”]( [The Jews In Finland Who Fought Together With The Germans: “We Had A Common Enemy”]( During the Winter War of 1939, the Soviet Union invaded its north-western neighbor, Finland. The population stood together in self-defence. Among them were Finnish Jews,… [Read more »]( [The Response From Overseas To The American Civil War]( [The Response From Overseas To The American Civil War]( By the beginning of the American Civil War, the United States was a little more than 50 years of age. They had started to develop relationships… [Read more »]( [Garnet Joseph Wolseley – A Controversial Military Reformer In The Lead-Up To WW1]( [Garnet Joseph Wolseley – A Controversial Military Reformer In The Lead-Up To WW1]( Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley was one of the most important military thinkers in the Victorian British army. Rising to a position of prominence in the… [Read more »]( [The Biggest Nuclear Explosions Of Military History]( [The Biggest Nuclear Explosions Of Military History]( Most of us have seen footage or photographs of the explosions at Nagasaki and Hiroshima: the mushroom cloud, the radius, the devastation. Those, however, were… [Read more »]( [Winning Isn’t Always Worth It – Pyrrhic Victories Of Military History]( [Winning Isn’t Always Worth It – Pyrrhic Victories Of Military History]( The term Pyrrhic victory can be used where someone technically “wins”, or achieves their objective, but the cost makes the victory almost not worth the… [Read more »]( [The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We Won’t Leave The Fortress”]( [The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We Won’t Leave The Fortress”]( Brest Fortress and the town of Brest are located in modern day Belarus. In 1939 the town was conquered by the Germans during the invasion… [Read more »]( [The Weapons They Carried: Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to World War Two]( [The Weapons They Carried: Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to World War Two]( Let’s take a look at the most ubiquitous Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. 10. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard… [Read more »]( [When Four Prisoners Escaped From Auschwitz In The Kommander’s Car]( [When Four Prisoners Escaped From Auschwitz In The Kommander’s Car]( In 1942, four Polish prisoners at Auschwitz had had enough. They wanted to escape, but if they did (regardless of whether or not they succeeded),… [Read more »]( Timera, 901 N. Pitt St., Suite 325, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, United States You may [unsubscribe]( or [change your contact details]( at any time. [Powered by:](