Category: History

Here are some wartime secret agents that you didn’t really expect.

Freddie was 14, and Truus was 16 when they were recruited in a Dutch resistance group to work behind the curtains against the Nazis.

Not many of us know about JFK’s brother’s death in the Navy, a story that’s not much told in what was labeled as the “Kennedy curse.”

While there were plenty of weapons that turned out to be great and were mass-produced, there were also those that flopped and were better left off in the deep abyss of the past. Here are examples of those World War II weapons that failed miserably.

Imagine a woman so feared by her enemies that she was known as “Lady Death.” It was said that she loomed over the enemy like a demonic angel, but in reality, she was neither. This “Hero of the Soviet Union“ (her nation’s highest top award for valor in combat) stood only 5′ 1″ (155 cm), yet […]

Most of us have perhaps come across this iconic photograph once in our lives. Here’s the reason why he wasn’t doing the salute.

Not much known to most of us was that unimaginable cruelties and atrocities also happened in the Korean War. Here are some of the tales of horror.

Throughout history, there were various ways and techniques used to crush adversaries’ hopes, even before the first bullet was fired. Here are some of the psychological warfare tactics used in history.

On June 20, 1941, the Soviets opened a tomb in Samarkand. It was the corpse of a man responsible for killing 5% of the 14th-century world population, Tamerlane.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about Nixon was that the only shots he fired throughout his participation in WWII were shots of his favorite blended whiskey.

Being an agent, regardless of which side, perhaps the last thing that you think you could find was friendship… but they did.

Who would’ve thought that this seemingly innocent (although smug) phrase was stolen from the trenches of World War I?