In the 1950s the US Navy also considered the idea of a nuclear powered submarine aircraft carrier. The AN-1 submarine would carry eight aircraft. Although the AN-14 was never built, it could have written its own page in naval history. It is worth noting that the idea of aircraft carrier subma
Spain throughout its centuries-long history had aroused the interest of foreign powers in its internal affairs. But in the new civil war that broke out in 1936, due to its political overtones, but also due to the complicated European political situation of the time, Britain preferred to remain neutr
In October 1918 the German armies were on their way back defeated by the overwhelming material and numerical superiority of the ANTATE forces. As E.M. Remarque so cleverly put it:for every tired German soldier there were five rested ones opposite. In every German kurama many cans of corned beef, in
In cosmopolitan Paris in the middle of the 17th century the “Sun King”, Louis XIV, had just personally taken over the rule of France. The young king had managed to survive the Spanish-French war and the Sphendoni revolution. One of the kings loyal subjects was Eugene-Mauritius, Prince of Savoy-Carig
The Habsburg Empire was Frances most persistent adversary from 1792 to 1815. A little-known aspect of its involvement in these wars concerns its ordinary national guards. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire there was a multi-ethnic state. In order to maintain his coherence he had to follow a particularly
The Dacians were a Thracian race that inhabited the regions of present-day Romania. They were fierce warriors forcing the lords of the world into long struggles for their submission. The Dacians were among the most advanced northern Thracian races. Their organization was tribal. At the top of th
On 21 October the Soviet 2nd Brigade of the 25th Guards Tank Brigade of the 2nd Guards Tank Corps crossed the Angerap River and stormed the village of Nemerzdorf in East Prussia. Direct German counterattacks did not work and the Soviets occupied the village. During an air raid Soviet soldiers too
On April 6, 1941, the Germans attacked Yugoslavia. The Croats saw the German attack as an opportunity to liberate themselves from Yugoslavia, which they had joined, not so willingly, after World War I. On April 10, 1941, in Zagreb, Ante Pavelic, the head of the fascist Croatian separatist organiz
The battle on the shores of Lake Peipus, in 1242, was a small-scale conflict that would have had little significance if its political outcome had not been so catalytic. There the elite few of the West fought a much larger army of the East and were defeated by the enemys numbers, environment and tact
The Legion formed three times by the Archduke Charles of Habsburg, although a volunteer body, acted with considerable success against the French armies where he was called to face them. In 1792, Archduke Charles formed his homonymous legion, in present-day Belgium, for the first time. It was a vo
During the Second World War, many volunteers from various countries, including the occupied ones, fought on the side of the Germans. This also applies to the French who fought against the Soviets, on the side of their former adversaries. The 33rd Waffen SS Division Charlemagne was created in 1944
When in 1683 Prince Eugene assumed his first command, Emperor Leopolds army could be described as modern. The modernization of the army was an arduous task undertaken by the Italian-born general Montcuccoli, immediately after the Thirty Years War (1648) had almost ended. Montecucoli was the first
The Fokker DR I was designed by Reinhold Platz, who inspired the new fighter from the British Sopwith triplane. Platts designed the aircraft with an emphasis on maneuverability. For this he designed an aircraft with wings of very small wing area and thin chord. The aircraft was fitted with the 11
The infamous Battle of Waterloo largely decided the European balance for about 100 years. She has connected her name with the dramatic advances of the Scots Grays and the Polish Lancers, the attack of the French cavalry on the British squares, the defeat of the infantry of the Imperial Guard. Howeve
The American Standard Oil was in 1941 the largest oil company in the world. Its president was William Farris and its managing director was Walter Teagle. From the mid-1920s Tiggle had acquired contacts in Germany, and especially with Hermann Schmitz, an executive of the chemical industry IG Farben.
In 1695, taking advantage of the empires involvement in the war against France, the new Ottoman Sultan Mustafa gathered large forces and attacked the imperial forces in Hungary. The Sultan with 50,000 men defeated the 8,000 imperial soldiers of General Veterani at the Battle of Lugos (September 20,
Cavalry was considered, not unjustly, an obsolete weapon during the Second World War. However, many of the belligerent countries developed cavalry formations and successfully so. When World War II broke out, the Italian Army raised six cavalry regiments, including the 3rd Dragoons in Savoy, which wa
In 1715 the Turkish danger for the Habsburg Empire and consequently for all of Europe began to be felt again. Turkish ambitions had been revived since 1711, when Mehmet Pasha with 260,000 men defeated Tsar Peter the Greats 40,000 men at the Battle of Prutus. Always following the same expansionis
The idea of an aerial flying aircraft carrier was born almost simultaneously with the birth of the airplane. In the decades of the 1920s and 1930s, in fact, the idea took on flesh and blood, in the form of flying aircraft carriers, which served parasitic fighters, for their self-protection. The
In 1715 the Turkish danger again began to be felt on the eastern borders of the Habsburg Empire. Turkish ambitions had been revived since 1711, when Mehmet Pasha with 260,000 men defeated Peter the Greats 40,000 men in battle of Prutus. Always following the same expansionist policy, the Turks, viola
Is there or was there an agreement between large companies to manufacture following the principle of planned obsolescence, so that the products have an expiration date that is not strictly necessary other than to force them to be discarded after a time and thus encourage sales? Is it just a legend?
A few days ago we published an article in which we saw how, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Czechoslovakia disintegrated between internal centrifugal movements (which gave rise to the Slovak Republic) and the scrapping to which Germany and Poland subjected it, the same year in which Hun
Constitution of the Popular Front on July 14, 1935:it brings together the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Radical Party in an alliance of the middle classes with the working class (Maurice Thorez). Non-revolutionary, the slogan of the Popular Front is bread, peace, freedom, and its mode
At the end of the Second World War, Europe was at the end of its rope:the destruction was enormous, the infrastructures were in ruins, the lines of communication were destroyed. Despite the peace, people still live in conditions as difficult as during the war, food restrictions are still present, fo