In January 1945, British forces launched a major offensive against the Japanese in Arakan, then Burma. The British plan called for the 3rd Commando Brigade to be deployed south of the Japanese positions at Kangau to cut off the forces of the Japanese 54th Infantry Division there. The British occ
The men of the Afrika Korps also belonged to an, if not elite, at least distinct force and they knew it. This knowledge gave birth, precisely, to the wonderful unit spirit that possessed the units of the Afrika Korps, from their first to their last combat engagement on the North African front. I
The summer of 1566 saw the last attempt of the Turkish sultan Suleiman the so-called magnificent, to neutralize the Habsburgs, also occupying Vienna. On May 1, 1566 Suleiman, at the head of a huge army that according to some sources numbered 300,000 men. Other sources state 100-200,000 men. On Ju
Charlie Allnut, a drunken simpleton Canadian transporter who travels the Ulanga River aboard his boat, has to rescue Rose, the Puritan sister of a missionary killed by askaris Germans during World War I. Together they flee by river aboard The African Queen going through a thousand adventures, in th