In 1940, the Communist Party of India attacked Gandhis leadership for not fighting with the British. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in AD 1941, Moscow urged all the communist and progressive powers of the world to contribute to the struggle of Soviet Russia or the struggle of the Allies of the
Holland, September 1944 Eisenhower finally admits to Montgomerys daring plan:to rush through the Netherlands with his armored and airborne troops to outflank the German defences. But Market Garden was not equipped with all the necessary means. It was ultimately the failure in front of Arnhem that p
Photo credit:©Olaf Tausch, 2009 Djoser reigns over Egypt around -2650, under the IIIth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, of which he is the second king. Under his authority, the country is unified. The necropolis of Saqqara, not far from Memphis, has always housed the tombs of kings. They are erected out
When American pilot Owen Badgett was flying his B-24 Liberator bomber towards a bridge in Burma he could not have known what was about to happen. Badgett enlisted in the Air Force and in 1942 graduated with the rank of second lieutenant. He was then transferred to the 7th Bombardment Squadron ba