Vulture's Wargaming Blog

Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way! Learn the size of the Pilla...

It's 70 years this week since the first US air force officer was killed in Europe, following America's entry into World War II. By ...

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me today, and we all could probably use more calm in our lives. Some doctor ...

This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. It covers the lowest estimate of death as well as the highest estimate, th...

During battles at the end of World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians never got a decent burial. For almost 30 years, one m...

A 33ft (10m) poppy placed on a hill in Wiltshire to launch the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal will appear on the BBC's Countryf...

The mass slaughter of WW1 1914-18 robbed the UK of a million lives, leaving no part of the country untouched. But there was a tiny handful ...

An excavation at the site of a 1941 Spitfire crash in a bog in the Irish Republic uncovered huge, remarkably preserved chunks of plane and s...

Egypt is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. The unexploded ordnance left lying in its desert from World War II battles ra...

It is 10 years since a deal to protect the world's thousands of shipwrecks, but the UK and several other major maritime powers are yet t...

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be the last living master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shastar vidya. ...

In Philadelphia, American and British lawyers have debated the legality of America's founding documents. Link -

Lest we forget.... - The UK's military role in Afghanistan since 2001 has not been without its human toll. Members of the Army, RAF, Roy...

For anyone who might think that after 10 years in Afghan things should be getting easier, this BBC article makes kinda depressing reading......

A secret World War II diary of the British special forces unit, the SAS, has been kept hidden since it was created in 1946. Now it's bei...

Sections of Hitler's Atlantic Wall are being restored by French enthusiasts. But should the Nazi fortification be fully embraced as par...

Slightly gutted today to hear that Andy Whitfield (39) who was the lead in the first episode of Spartacus died yesterday from Cancer. Link ...

The tomb for the original builders of Stonehenge could have been unearthed by an excavation at a site in Wales. Link to the BBC web sit...

Ships don't come with much more historical ballast than the MV Liemba . The steamer still shudders and belches its way across Lake Tanga...

A suspected Iron Age road, made of timber and preserved in peat for 2,000 years, has been uncovered by archaeologists in East Anglia . T...