One of Adolf Hitler’s many pipe dreams, was that one day, Germany’s capital city of Berlin would be rebuilt into the Capital of the World, and be given a grand new name – Germania. The Masterplan Hitler, together with his friend and…
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By the late 19th Century, the scramble for Africa by the European Empires had begun. Germany was a little late to the party, focusing instead on consuming its central European neighbours. Eventually, in an effort to compete with Britain and France, they…
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When the Empires of Europe bought their slaves from Africa, they put many of them to work on the lush plantations in the Caribbean colonies. The British had Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. The Spanish had Cuba, Puerto…
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History is littered with false narratives. Over time, these myths can end up being accepted, at least by popular culture, as fact. For example, much of what is attributed to the life of Henry VIII actually comes from the Shakespeare play of…
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When the troops from Charlie company arrived in Vietnam in December 1967, they instantly bonded with the locals. The first few weeks featured more socialising than any actual fighting. This was not the War they were expecting, and it was great. But…
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Our story begins at the Berlin Conference in 1884, where a group of World Leaders (which actually means European Leaders) met with the purpose of dividing up their new colonial enterprise called Africa. The Empires of Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and the…
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IN THE BEGINNING On June the 14th, 1928, Ernesto Guevara is born in Rosario, Argentina, to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna. “Che” was a nickname he would get later in life. His parents were left-leaning middle class professionals of…
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British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, stated that Britain could not have come through the Second World War (or the First) without the giant contribution of the Indian Army. Yet, for most of us outside India, this has gone largely unnoticed. The…
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Brian Bilston wrote this durable poem in 2016: “America Is A Gun England is a cup of tea.France, a wheel of ripened brie.Greece, a short, squat olive tree.America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand.Argentina, Maradona’s hand.Germany, an oompah band.America…
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Our story begins in the The Kingdom of Benin which, just to be confusing, is located in the southwest of present day Nigeria and not the nation of Benin, which is just a few kilometres west. Today, the old Benin Kingdom is…
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It was 98 years ago this week, that an unknown group of German fascists first gained international attention, after a failed attempt at a coup d’etat. The large group first gathered at a huge Beer Hall in Munich, called the Burgerbaukeller. This…
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We often hear nowadays that the West is declining and being overtaken by China. Actually, China is not rising to the top of the ladder, it is returning. For thousands of years the geographically enormous nations of China and India have been…
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It was 109 years ago this month that the RMS (Royal Mail Steamer) Titanic foundered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in the deaths of 1496 people. To this day, there have been very few peacetime disasters at sea which…
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The resurgence of Christian Nationalism in the USA has, amongst other things, fostered the rise of Donald Trump, and culminated in the attack on the capital by Neo-confederate terrorists on January 6. But this kind of propaganda based lunacy is not limited…
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Now I am become Death… In August 1945, the United States detonated 2 Atomic bombs over Japan. The first destroyed the city of Hiroshima on Monday the 6th. The second, more powerful bomb, destroyed the city of Nagasaki, just 3 days later….
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With so much attention given, understandably, to the catastrophic 20 year War in Iraq, not much has been said about the preceding events. It is these events which created the bad blood that exists between the USA & Iraq. No, not the…
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