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The collapse of the Russian Empire and the emergence of the Soviet Un
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t
When we think of the U-boat campaign during the Second World War, images often arise of silent predators gliding beneath the waves, steely and lethal, striking fear into Allied convoys. The myth of th
THE TURNING POINTS OF 1812
“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”
Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg
