Spanish Civil War: The Dress Rehearsal for the Second World War
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was the first great clash of twentieth-century ideologies and the testing ground for the Second World War.
Spanish Flu: The Pandemic That Stopped the World in 1918
The deadly influenza pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, "La Grippe" and the "Dancer", was the most devastating epidemic in world history. The Spanish flu epidemic (January 1918 to December 1920) reached every continent and infected around 500 million people, a third...
The Trinity Test: The Dawn of the Atomic Age
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds. - Robert Oppenheimer, in an American television interview two decades after the Trinity Test. A Race Against...
The Srebrenica Massacre: An Open Wound in Europe
To grasp the magnitude of the Srebrenica Massacre it is essential to go back to the turbulent state of the Balkan peninsula in the early 1990s. The former Yugoslavia, a mosaic of ethnicities and religions held together by the firm grip of the communist regime, began...
Hiroo Onoda: The Last Warrior of Imperial Japan
Discover the true story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese officer who kept fighting for 29 years after World War II officially ended, loyal to his mission.
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