Montgomerys British Eighth Army occupying an east-west front, between the sea to the east and the Zaghouan massif, and Andersons First Army a south-north front, between the Zaghouan region and the sea, in the north, the hinge of the two fronts being ensured by the 19th French corps of General Koeltz
Between 5 and 6 million years ago the Mediterranean Sea almost completely dried up. The cause was the tectonic movements that closed the Strait of Gibraltar connecting Europe and Africa. Deprived of the influx of water from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean could not balance that loss with the draina
Today we are used to sequels, in movies, in literature, sometimes even in music. When a work is successful, the second part immediately arrives to continue exploiting the vein. But that was not always the case. There was someone who invented sequels, before whom there had never been one. He was a Gr
The Vozdouchno-dessantnye voïska or VDV airborne troops) is a military body of airborne troops of the Russian army, ex-Soviet army. On August 2, 1930, during maneuvers of the VVS in the Moscow Military District, 12 soldiers were parachuted from the wing of an airplane. We quickly realized the capab