Category: Battlefields

Destroyed tank on fire in the middle of the Highway of Death

Highway of Death: The Chilling Legacy of the Gulf War’s Most Infamous Road

Chiune Sugihara sitting at a desk

Chiune Sugihara: The Japanese ‘Schindler’ Who Saved Thousands from Concentration Camps

Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia standing together + Blank telegram

Willy-Nicky Telegrams: The Tsar and Kaiser’s Final Attempt to Avert World War I

Anna Coleman Ladd working on a prosthetic that's on a soldier's face

Anna Coleman Ladd: The American Sculptor Who Gave Injured Soldiers A Second Lease On Life

Set of ivory dentures with human teeth.

Teeth Taken From Fallen Soldiers at Waterloo Were Used to Make Dentures

Painting of soldiers fighting in a battle on a small battlefield.

The Hundred Years’ War: 116 Years of Battle

Deadly Marine Sniper Chuck Mawhinney Hit 16 Headshots In 30 Seconds on a Pitch Black Night

Black and white photo of men in military uniform leaning out train windows and waving at the camera.

Incredible Images of the Dunkirk Evacuation

Black and white photo of a kid standing beside a car with a pink historical plaque in the foreground.

The Battle of Athens: When Armed Veterans Overthrew a Corrupt Local Government

A Baby Was Entombed at Sea Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Stolen Corpses of Waterloo Soldiers May Have Been Used for Fertilizer

Movie still of two elephants walking through a field with riding equipment on from Lord of the Rings

How ‘The Lord of the Rings’ was Forged in the Battle of the Somme