Category: History

About 222 students and 18 teachers from women’s schools were deployed into a nursing unit to help the wounded Imperial Japanese Army.

During World War I, No Man’s Land was one of the places you wouldn’t want to be in. Just as the soldiers thought they already had more than enough to worry about, they would find out that even the seemingly innocent, harmless, and war-beaten trees could also kill them.

To the Soviets during the siege of Leningrad, performing an orchestra sounded like an attractive idea, so that’s what they did.

They say that the true defining factor of an excellent commander is not in the offense when soldiers are mostly prepared but during the retreat when most of the troops are in poor shape, desperate, and low in morale, and the odds are not in your favor.

The US discovered that the cause of the mines’ explosions was not enemy ships. As it turned out, the culprit was located some 93 million miles away: the sun.

What would you do if you were left behind by your troops as you were evacuating from the territory of the enemies who obviously wanted you dead?

There were those from ancient times who decided to choose unique and unusual ways to stop a siege.

In the conquest of trying to create the best tank ever, many strange and unusual designs have been produced.

It wasn’t just bombs and bullets that flew during the American Civil War as balls of snow were also thrown by the Confederates to one another.

Sometimes, it’s just hard to determine whether it’s time to surrender or if you should keep fighting.

Think your military training was tough? Then check out these training exercises in history that you would not, for sure, want to go through.

Like what Finnish writer Erno Paasilinna said, “It is also a victory to know when to retreat,” and that’s what differentiates a great leader from a good one. Military commanders who knew that advancing is not always the best course of action are a gem. A correctly and adequately done one could allow the forces […]