They murdered in broad daylight, in noisy places. They killed victims with curved knives - the so-called sica. After all, they left unnoticed. Thats how the sicarians worked. After the death of Herod the Great, tensions in the Jewish land subordinated to Rome grew. Eventually, Judea was transforme
May 1940. Germany is pushing west. France is falling. The British were left with a scrap of land. Evacuation becomes necessary. Paradoxically, Adolf Hitler helped in it! This evacuation might not have happened at all, if not for a very fortunate combination of circumstances. First things first. Th
Poland is a swamp - wrote an officer of the Grand Army. But it was the two battles fought in Mazovia (near Gołymin and Pułtusk) that marked the beginning of Napoleons end. Poland is a huge swamp, scattered with meager villages and a few decaying farms, which the local nobility call their mansions
Even the bravest pilots could not imagine a flight without a mascot for good luck. So the co-authors of the soaring victories were dolls, cats and devils. Captain Camillo Perini made combat flights in Hannover CLII in 1919, taking off with the observer Lieutenant Karol Friser from the Lewandówka o
In August 1945, atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and forced the Japanese to surrender. Truth or myth? What ended the Pacific War? The history of the world is full of distortions and understatements. Sometimes things considered facts have little to do with reality. On the other hand, eve
In 1943, as a result of a daring action, the Home Army soldiers captured a van full of money. One hundred million zlotys! Preparations for the so-called Górals campaign lasted one and a half years, its execution only a few minutes. It was a lace job. Probably the best prepared and carried out operat
The thesis that a handful of conquistadors could conquer the Inca and Aztec empires on their own is rarely subjected to critical scrutiny. What was it really like? The history of the world is full of distortions and understatements. Sometimes things considered facts have little to do with reality.
This invasion of Poland definitely did not work for Emperor Henry II. When he fled in the last days of August 1015, leaving his army in a hostile land, he had a feeling that it might be wrong with her. He didnt think she was going to be literally wiped off the surface though. The hostility between
I dont know if our homeland or the whole world saw something similar after the Grunwald battle, wrote one of the participants of the Battle of Beresteczek. Beresteczko remains in the shadow of Grunwald, although both historians and writers have done their best to bring it to light. Perhaps we are
Samuel Łaski was a type of man for special tasks. Zygmunt III Waza often sent him to Sweden, the crown of which he wanted to regain. The envoy also participated in the expedition of 1598 - and at the head of eleven men he conquered the capital itself. How did he do it and why was such a victory wast
He was one of the showpieces of the Greater Poland Uprising. He was, next to armored trains, the only armored force of Poles. Ehrhardt M17 - battleship from Wilhelms regiment. He was one of the showpieces of the Greater Poland Uprising, as well as the Third Silesian Uprising. He even became the pr
The battle in the fields of Grunwald was inevitable. On July 15, 1410, Polish-Lithuanian troops stood against the Teutonic Knights. The world has not seen such a slaughter for a long time. Władysław, the king of Poland, considering that there was no hope of maintaining peace with the Teutonic Knig
Despite the defeat they experienced near Vienna, the Turks still managed to bounce back. King Jan III found out about it, who almost cost his life a dramatic clash with the young and energetic Pasha Kara Mehmed at Parkany. The break-up of the Turkish army near Vienna on September 12, 1683, did not
Fort VII in Poznań was the first concentration camp in Poland. He had the sinister fame of a death factory. The transfer from here to Auschwitz was good news. It was one of the first buildings in the Poznań fortress system built by the Prussians in the 19th century. It was built in the years 1876
NATO is by far the strongest military alliance in the world today. It was created in a completely different reality - the Cold War. Later, the organization had to adapt to new challenges. And with it its member since the end of the 90s, that is Poland. The genesis of the Alliance and subsequent g
The scale of wartime cruelty during the siege of the Przemyśl fortress was beyond the imagination of the people of that time. Terrified, they looked for consolation in… letters from heaven. “It was terrible to see; in the place where the Muscovites tried to invade, there were at least 500 corpses
There are many private armies in the world, but this group has become particularly famous, mainly due to its activities, incl. in Ukraine and links with the Kremlin. The Wagnerites are portrayed as effective and ruthless mercenaries that we should fear. But how much truth is there in that? And where
Kara Mustafa made a tragic mistake near Vienna. He ignored the warnings of the spies who reported on Sobieskis relief. The Polish triumph decided the fate of Europe. The leader was overwhelmed with such a high opinion of himself and such carelessness that he did not give any credence to the tongue
In August 1944, a bloody tank battle took place near Studzianki on the Vistula River. It lasted 8 days. The Red Army soldiers fighting the Gierings were supported by Polish tankers. The crew of the tank No. 102 under the command of Lieutenant Wacław Feryniec stood out in particular. It is true that
I am being dismissed by those people who have tried for a long time to force me to come back because they did not send me meals and money. So Hannibal won not the Roman nation, beaten so many times by me, but the Carthaginian senate by envious intrigues, ”the Carthaginian leader bluntly commented on
When a young and beautiful girl suddenly appears in a partisan camp lost in the mountains, everyone dreams of making a closer acquaintance with her. And the pick-up attempts begin immediately. You can take them with the gentlemans class, you can be cheeky, or ... like a last punch. So like Che Gueva
He disgraced his masters memory and betrayed the son of the rightful ruler. He put his hand to the collapse of the mighty empire of Bolesław the Brave. And he dreamed of much more. The latest discovery only proves this. In 1034, the unlucky ruler Mieszko II dies, and his son Kazimierz takes over
Statue of Antinous Of the beautiful Antinous, young lover of Adriano, I already talked about in this post: https://www.pilloledistoria.it/2274/storia-antica/antinoo-bellissimo-amante-dellimperatore; the sudden and tragic death of the boy, who drowned in mysterious circumstances, threw the Emp
“Mr Gorbachev, open this poll. Mr Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall. ” November 9, 1989, a historical date, I would dare to say, epochal, the date of the end of a symbol, the date of the end of a world, the date of the end of an era and the beginning of a dream ... or at