Category: History

All through time, a lot of people met the unfortunate fate of being executed, with some of them being Britain’s most famous historical figures. Here are three of them.

If you were to survey people: Who broke the Enigma code? You’re more likely to get that it was the legendary and brilliant mathematician Alan Turing of Britain. While that is definitely not wrong, it is also not entirely right.

To prevent atrocities like The Rape of Nanjing, it was ordered to confine sexual activities within military-controlled facilities called “comfort stations.”

Most of the time, history talks about how the soldiers were nourished with nutrient-packed chocolates and biscuits, providing them with coffee or cigarettes but the use of drugs in warfare to help increase their performance was a detail usually left out. 

It was 1915 when the Western Front was graced with the existence of who would become one of London’s greatest eccentrics, in the personality of Alfred Daniel Wintle.

At the time when the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was imprisoned by his people after the Allied bombers flattened the “Eternal City” of Rome, Hitler did his part as a trusted ally and friend to come and rescue his fellow dictator from the people… or was it for a reason?

While it was already difficult enough being black at that time, Carl Brashear achieved his dream and more, even after losing one of his legs.

It was in desperate times that some people rise up to help others, regardless of how risky it is. That was what Dr. Vittorio Sacerdoti, Professor Giovanni Borromeo, and Dr. Adriano Ossicini did— convincing the Nazis about a highly-contagious disease called Syndrome K.

There weren’t many reports about the other invasion attempt in Britain by the French forces after the Battle of Hastings.

On May 4, 1945, perhaps the most unexpected alliance of World War II happened: Germans and Americans firing not against but alongside each other.

Originally flown as a commercial airline in revenue service, the Zeppelin was given a different purpose when WWI broke out.

There was no denying that when it came to battles, the Vikings bred some of the toughest and fiercest warriors of all time, and these men were the receipt.