Militares

The project of writing a two-volume, richly illustrated study of the German armoured unit, the (Wiener) 2.Panzer-Division, is to be completed in 2016. The author, Fre de ric Deprun, has devoted more than ten years to studying meticulously this armoured unit's engagements in the Norman bocage. The (...)

Explores the unique multi-ethnic British Indian armies under the East India Company.The armies of British India were, as one of its members wrote, the most extraordinary phenomenon in the history of the world.' Multi-ethnic, composed of men of diverse ethnicities and faiths, under the flag of the (...)

The Wiking division was the only armoured SS division to fight exclusively on the Eastern Front.It is true that it was partly composed of Flemish, Dutch and Scandinavian volunteers whose primary motivation for most of them , was to fight against Bolshevism.It would have been a political mistake to (...)

The Wiking Division was the only SS armored division exclusively to fight on the Eastern Front. True, it was partly composed of volunteers Flemish, Dutch and Scandinavian whose primary motivation - most of them - was to fight against Bolshevism. It fought with an energy never wavered even if the (...)