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96Downton Abbey Clothes The English Period Drama Starts A Hot New Fashion Trend
Downton Abbey is the popular English series and the Clothes are the hot new trend. Buy yours online today.
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91World War 2 History: Sitzkrieg- The Plan to Wait for Hitler
When the Germans invaded poland Britain and France declared war on Germany and gathered 110 divisions arrayed against the 23 German divisions given the hopeless task of holding the Allies at bay until the war in Poland was over. For eight months, the Allies waited for the Germans to attack.
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87World War 1 Flying Aces: ANZAC s who tamed the skies above the trenches in ww1.
World War 1 Flying Aces: ANZACs who tamed the skies above the trenches in WW 1; by Pearldiver. The boys from DownUnder who volunteered to fight for King and Country, in far away places. To an entire generation of young men, army recruiters sold...
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88Squizzy Taylor and Other Notorious Australian Gangsters of the 1920s
In the 1920s, American-style gangsters, the most notorious being 'Squizzy' Taylor, controlled crime in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney, offering every kind of service, from gambling and prostitution to sly-grog and blackmail - even murder.
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85Queen Victoria's Grandchildren- the effect on World War One
Victoria and Albert were married for 21 years- not a particularly long marriage but their nine children and 36 grand children had a great effect on the shaping of the world in the early twentieth century
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86The sinking of the Lusitania: A survivor's story
Fannie Jane Morecroft left New York on RMS Lusitania on the 1st May 1915, bound for Liverpool. The Lusitania was one of the great Atlantic liners, which rushed to and fro across the Atlantic conveying people at speed and in luxury. Fannie was...
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82Firing Squad at Dawn - Executions in World War One (WWI)
During the First World War, several hundred men were shot at dawn, by firing squads, made up of their own comrades, supposedly for cowardice and desertion. Many were suffering from trauma and other physical, psychological and / or emotional health problems. A number of them were young boys, who had lied about their age, when they enlisted, and then simply could not cope with the horrors that World War One forced upon them. They died a horrific and terrifying death, when they should have been sen
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84Canada in the First World War - Vimy Ridge
Before the Canadians Vimy Ridge marks the western end of the Douai Plain in northern France. It lies west of the village of Vimy and was briefly occupied by the Germans in September of 1914 until they were driven off by the French. Recognizing...
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79Military History: The U.S. Airborne
The American paratrooper is trained to fight wherever in the world they are needed and they strike hard and fast behind enemy lines. From the bloody battlefields of World War Two to the present day, this is the story of the U.S. Airborne. The...
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82How did the First World War affect the future world?
How far did the settlement of the first war cause the unrest that led to the second world war
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