The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE. Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. In 1944 the SOE came up with a number of ideas to assassinate Hitler and any high ranking Nazis who were present sat the time of the attack. The […]
Albrecht Duerer is mainly known in artistic circles. He is a great painter of the Renaissance, yet it appears he has written or at the very least contributed to a martial arts manual of 15th Century Germany. The book covers fighting unarmed, with dagger, knife (Messer), and sword. It also covers fighting in armour on […]
This is part of the Images of war book series and is one of my favourite types of books – one with lots of photos. one of the main elements of this book is that it looks at a little covered unit in World War two. While we have lots of books and coverage of […]
A big gap in my knowledge around the medieval period is the War of the Roses. Studying German medieval combat means I don’t get to worry about the medieval Game of Thrones that happens during the 15th century in England. That said recently, it has become a point of interest. So I jumped at the […]
