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The Battle of Britain

November 21, 2019January 20, 2020Articles, Featured1 Comment

In the summer of 1940, things looked very, very bad for the Allies of WWII. Poland and most of Eastern Europe were in Axis hands; France had just capitulated; and the Japanese were gobbling up huge swaths of Pacific islands. In fact, the Allies as we now call them – England, America, China, and the…

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鋼の雨: The Battle of Okinawa

January 5, 2020January 20, 2020Articles, FeaturedLeave a Comment

By the spring of 1945, WWII was drawing to a close in Europe. The Axis in that region were either on the run (the Germans) or had already switched sides (the Italians). As Allied command began talking of dividing up liberated Europe in the wake of the Normandy landings, Pacific command was still locked in…

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The 2nd Battle of Panipat

November 4, 2019November 11, 2019Articles1 Comment

On November 5th, 1556, The 2nd Battle of Panipat took place. Forces of the Mughal Empire (founded in 1526 by Babur of modern-day Uzbekistan) faced off against Hemu Chandra Vikramaditya’s Hindu forces in the north of India. The Mughals had recently lost land near modern day Delhi and Agra and sought to reclaim what the…

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World War II

April 16, 2020May 27, 2020Articles, FeaturedLeave a Comment

When: 1939 – 1945 Beginning at the end of the 1930s, WWII was really a series of interconnected regional conflicts. Every human being on earth was touched in some way by the unprecedented carnage of the war, whether on the front lines, at the home front, or in the concentration camps. More so than perhaps…

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WWII – The North African Campaign

November 20, 2019January 20, 2020Articles, Featured4 Comments

Some of the very first action in WWII took place in North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1930s, most European powers – predominantly the Allies – had economic interests in the region. The new fascist powers of the era wanted a piece of the area too, and in 1935 the Italians began expanding…

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05/20 – Operation Mercury

May 22, 2020Featured, On This DayLeave a Comment

On this day in 1941, the German invasion of Crete began. Home to the ancient Minoans – Europe’s first advanced civilization – the Greek island occupied an important spot in the WWII battle for the Mediterranean: from its ports and runways, British air and sea forces dominated the region and threatened Romanian oil fields, an…

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European Urban Centres from West to East, 1940-44

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020Articles, FeaturedLeave a Comment

This article is a revised version of an essay submitted for academic credit at the University of Toronto. Throughout history, military forces have usually avoided fighting in built-up areas for a variety of reasons. Street battles are difficult to control, harder to wage, and nearly impossible to “win”. In WWII the German Wehrmacht realized this;…

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02/13 – The Bombing of Dresden

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On this day in 1945, over 1,200 Allied bomber aircraft took to the skies for an attack on Dresden, an industrial city in Eastern Germany. That night, the first of four sorties (missions) began and, over the next 48 hours, 3,900 tonnes of incendiary and high-explosive (HE) munitions were dropped on the city centre. The…

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The Soviet-Afghan War

January 30, 2020February 7, 2020Articles, FeaturedLeave a Comment

As the 1970s came to a close, Soviet power seemed to be on the ascent. New military technology contributed to a rising fear of nuclear war, regime change in Iran marked a rebalancing of power in the Middle East and the aggressive foreign policy of Russian leadership had many in the West concerned. The Cold…

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British Colonial Troops at War, 1914-18

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020Articles, FeaturedLeave a Comment

This article is a revised version of an essay submitted for academic credit at the University of Toronto. At the outset of WWII, Britain had one of the best armies in the world. Years of small but tough engagements such as the Boer and Anglo-Zulu wars – and rigorous selection and training programs – had…

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