The Arisaka rifle design remained standard in the Imperial Japanese Army from the turn of the century until after World War II. The Arisaka was accurate, but the addition of a metal dust cover above the bolt made its reloading noisy and its chamber prone to clogging. The Arisaka was built for an exc
The cinema has given us multiple stories of prisoners who escaped from German and Japanese camps, mainly during World War II. However, I do not remember any film in which the escape of a German prisoner from a British camp was narrated. Not that there was much to choose from, because in both world w
The transition from feudalism to capitalism was a phenomenon that began in the 14th century and has already been the subject of discussion among several historians. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe so-called transition from feudalism to capitalism (or from the feudal economic system to the capitalist ec
Semyon Danilovich Nomokonov was one of the best Soviet snipers of World War II. But it didnt start out that way... Nomokonov was born in eastern Siberia in 1900. He was a native of the small Evenk tribe, which today numbers around 70-75,000 souls in Russia, China and Mongolia. Everyone in his fam