The daughter of a wealthy merchant "goes into revolution," a career as a professional revolutionary, head of the political department of the armies of the southern front...

It so happened that in May 1960, a group of Swedish archaeologists, conducting excavations in the area of ​​Dendra in Greece, discovered a warrior's tomb, in which they found armor parts dating back to the end of the 15th century BC...

In 1945, the Americans resorted to a strategy of naval blockade and firebombing of Japan. Nuclear weapons were also used...

The idea that a feudal castle must be made of stone has been ingrained in our culture for a very long time. It became a kind of axiom that Europe was made of stone, and Rus' of wood. However, this is true...

On January 19, 1944, Adolf Hitler declared 14 sections of the Atlantic coast of France, part of the so-called Atlantic Wall, as well as the occupied British Channel Islands...

Literally on the eve of their phenomenal defeat, the French generals believed and convinced the public that Germany, under the leadership of the mad Hitler, would not last long...

Ivan the Terrible had no real options: defeat Poland, reunify Rus', and break through to the Baltic. These were incredibly complex tasks, which ultimately took Alexei II's government nearly two centuries to resolve.

After signing the Lateran Treaty and seeking to further ally himself with the Catholic Church, the Duce outlawed Freemasonry and exempted the clergy from taxes. His anti-religious...

A.A. Svechin has written extensively about how Napoleon's strategy, which defined the nature of military operations in the 19th century, was a thing of the past on the battlefields of the First World War, but the Balkanization of Europe gave rise to this phenomenon...

The founding of Sviyazhsk, the course of Ivan the Terrible's Kazan campaign of 1551, and inconsistencies in the sources....

The story of the Korean War begins with... 1910. That's the moment when the Joseon Kingdom became a colony of the Japanese Empire. The first colony. Without understanding this fact, everything else will remain...

Translation of an editorial published on the analytical portal El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua), with commentary from the translators...

Frunze's return from Turkey, his appointment as Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council and People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, his ill-fated stomach operation, and the fate of the article's hero's wife and children...

Sir John Smythe's light field armour, made around 1580-1590 in Augsburg, Germany, but later modified in England....

On May 30, following the victory at Goose Green, Major General Jeremiah Moore arrived in San Carlos. A decision had to be made on how to advance on Port Stanley. Two British brigade commanders proposed different plans.

We continue our journey back in time to the era of armored knights and ladies sweating under the weight of heavy dresses, corsets, and jewelry. And today we'll also discover a couple of very interesting...

Many people have heard of propaganda leaflets in one way or another, but I think few have heard of the fact that specially developed sound broadcasting devices were used to influence enemy soldiers during the war...

In Ancient Egypt and Greece, it was by inlaying, or metal inlay, that people learned to decorate bronze vases with gold and silver. Gradually, they learned to inlay iron objects as well.

The end of the civil war in Ukraine. The resolution of the Petliura-Makhno problem. Frunze's successful "business trip" to Turkey...

Due to China's isolationist laws, selling Chinese ships to foreigners was prohibited. So, when several Englishmen living in China decided to undertake such a voyage, the ocean...

The United States and other Western countries have begun seizing vessels of Russia's so-called "shadow fleet." History is repeating itself. In the 20th century, Soviet ships were already seized by Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War, and by the Japanese...

The main part of the military action to retake the Falklands involved a British landing on the enemy-occupied islands. This operation was named Operation Sutton after the Dublin suburb.

The Russian army avoided disaster in Grodno. Russian regiments under Menshikov retreated through Brest to Kyiv, where they began preparations for the summer campaign of 1706.

The history of this kingdom, which stretches more than 500 kilometers from north to south, is somewhat confusing, as records are incomplete and its rulers were sometimes independent, yet often...