Patti Pierazzo: The Big Repair is a 10-year conservation scheme and is on schedule for completion in 2033. However, given the ...

Discover the intriguing stories that shape the history of war with War History Online. Brush up on military history and read about the past and present of global and regional conflicts.

The Vietnam War was infamous for the guerrilla warfare the American forces were largely unprepared for. The Viet Cong were on home turf and used this to their advantage when it came to creating and ...

Ghost Car: In the early 1990s, a former Danish special forces soldier felt a calling from God to go to Bosnia and provide humanitarian aid during the Bosnian War. With the help of the US Army, he was ...

The First World War introduced many new weapons to the world of warfare. The first global mechanized war saw the first use of tanks and combat airplanes, but it’s less well known that the first ...

From July 1976 to December 1989 a strange noise could be heard on shortwave radios all around the globe. The signal was extremely powerful and was immediately noticed by both amateur and professional ...

The Polish government is calling for recognition for the Polish mathematicians who provided indispensable aid to Alan Turing in cracking the German Enigma code during the Second World War. Today, it ...

The Romans in the first century BCE were perhaps the most growing empires around. Though the civil wars of Caesar and Pompey, and Octavian and Marc Antony dominated the scene a lot more happened ...

Perhaps there are there few better ways to end a year than by clearing off a long-standing debt. If that is the case, then 2006 was a very good year for the British government who took the ultimate ...

Combat during the First World War was unlike anything armies had ever seen before, due to the advent of tanks and new, more effective weapons. One of the most lethal was poison gas, which floated ...

The Breda Modello 30 was developed in the late 1920s, at a time when Italy was looking to modernize its military arsenal. It was designed by arms manufacturer Breda Meccanica Bresciana, with the aim ...