Pearl Harbor: How Japan Saved the World for "Democracy" Colin Liddell December 07, 2018 0 The "dastardly attack." December 7th is the anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Once again we have the opportu... Read more »
How Weimar Germany Prepared the Way for the Fall of France Colin Liddell November 08, 2018 0 History is full of ironies. One of the greatest is the effect that the Treaty of Versailles had on causing and shaping the next World W... Read more »
"The French Army in 1936" by General René Tournès Colin Liddell November 02, 2018 0 Brigadier General René Tournès (1876-1959) was a WWI general and military writer. In 1936 he published the following account of the Fre... Read more »
Italy's Pocket War and Its Dwarf Imperialsm Colin Liddell September 29, 2018 0 Italians fighting Turks at Tripoli Italy was the site of one of the greatest empires -- the Roman -- but, to its shame, it was also th... Read more »
"COMRADE WORKERS, FORWARD TO THE LAST, DECISIVE FIGHT!" Colin Liddell August 04, 2018 0 by Vladimir Lenin We all know who that internal enemy is. It is the capitalists, the landowners, the kulaks, and their offspring, who hate ... Read more »
The Scottish Heart of Indian Independence Colin Liddell July 13, 2018 0 Alexander Duff As Ezra Pound famously said, "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." If seen in these te... Read more »
Swedish Independence as an Expression of German Greed and Danish Avant-Gardism Colin Liddell June 06, 2018 0 Idealised image of Gustavus Vasa raising the rebellion. Do countries and states have DNA -- elements present at their creation th... Read more »
Flooding China to Stem the Japanese Tide Colin Liddell June 05, 2018 1 When did WWII begin? Most would say it was when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, but a good case can be made for July 7th, 1937, when th... Read more »
Pu Yi and the Puppet State Principle of "Wangtao" Colin Liddell May 24, 2018 0 Back in 1933, Peter Fleming, the brother of James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, travelled via the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Jap... Read more »
The Dambusters Raid – an example of British technological 'try-hardism' Colin Liddell May 16, 2018 2 War, among other things, is a great stimulus to technology. WWI saw the invention of the tank, aerial bombardment, and the use of gas a... Read more »
What Was the Ethnic Composition of the Hapsburg Army? Colin Liddell April 25, 2018 0 In 1906 a survey found that out of every 1000 men enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army, there were 267 Germans/Austrians, 223 Hungaria... Read more »