The Operations of the ‘Great Army’ in Britain (865–79) The term ‘great army’, employed by several contemporary sources to describe this unusually large assemblage of Norse raiders, implies a huge horde of perhaps tens of thousands, but it most probably was not. Although no precise figures are given, it is highly doubtful that it numbered […]…
Category: History Roundup
Why the Average Civilian Should Study Asymmetrical Warfare
From the Archives, 2015. I got asked this question the other day by a close friend and it occurred to me that I had never really plainly answered that question on this blog, even though I talk about the subject frequently. I think the best way to approach this subject is through historical precedent. It…
The Cavalry of the Wehrmacht Book Review
I am always on the lookout for the more obscure WW2 books and this looks to be fascinating.
THE VIKINGS IN IRELAND 795–1014 Part I
I am reading a short novel right now about the Vikings in Ireland so I found this fascinating. Few places suffered more at the hands of the Vikings than Ireland. For the best part of 200 years the Vikings systematically milked Ireland of its people to supply the slave trade, yet, for all their military…
Know Your History: The Invisible Hand of Conquest – How Smallpox Defeated Armies, Toppled Empires & Changed History
Getting a Big Picture understanding of how contagions have shaped our history can put things in perspective. “Its presence shaped the fate of North America fully as much as any bullets, blades or bayonets.” By John Danielski THE CORONA VIRUS is not the first contagion to threaten the stability of civilization. Throughout history, disease…
The Last Living Paratrooper from MacArthur’s return …..
Amazing Story. Thanks GP!
Know Your History: WW2 Trifecta
Some Light Reading… This Panzer Ace Destroyed More Than A Dozen British Tanks Operation Queen: The Western Allied November 1944 Offensive Ireland Was Neutral in World War II, so Why Did the Nazis Attack It?
The Trials of Doc Holliday
THE TRIALS OF DOC HOLLIDAY Since I was a kid I always enjoyed learning the TRUTH behind the myths of the Old West Gunfighters. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Know Your History: Multicultural Vikings?
Multicultural Vikings The on-going agenda by so called “academics” on the left to manipulate the present by distorting the past needs to be confronted head on. Know Your History. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Military Organisation of the Holy Roman Empire
Know Your History, it’s Interesting Reading! Although firmly rooted and fairly well developed in the Rhineland, Franconia, Lorraine (the old Lotharingia) and Burgundy, feudalism in its widest sense was never as strong in Germany as in, say, France or England, and true knighthood and the customary granting of fiefs was unknown in Germany until…