Their unlikely allies? Members of the Wehrmacht, who had joined them in an effort to secure high-value prisoners of war who were kept in the castle. The Battle of Castle Itter took place 80 years ...

A carefully planned confrontation to intimidate the Desperados at the Cockades Bar led to 14 stitches when he was hit in the face with a bottle. "It broke the bottle, and there was blood covering ...

This script was later to become the novel The White Cockade Passes that was published in 1947. From then on, she wrote at least one novel or drama script a year, and she kept meticulous notes on ...

What makes you look like a Jacobite? -Don't know. -Pretty much nothing. Maybe a white cockade on your bonnet. But these people look like ordinary people, unless they're in one of the professional ...

Imagine you’re in Paris, in July 1789, on the cusp of the French Revolution. In the formal gardens of the Palais Royal, the coquettes enticing clients with their fans have retreated under the arches ...

In order to build a new Jerusalem, it is only necessary to raise a flag, sing a martial song and adorn the body with cockades and armbands. For a few months in the spring of 1848, it looked as though ...

The Battle for Castle Itter is the only recorded case of the entire war when soldiers from the German Wehrmacht fought alongside those of the American army. We tell the story of one of history's most ...

‘Dornford Yates’ was the pen-name of novelist William Mercer, 1885–1960. Of all the authors whose fiction has got about my wits, none has tempted me so clamorously to find out about his factual life.

Aufgeschreckt von den großen, schwergepanzerten KW-I und KW-II-Panzern der Sowjets im Zweiten Weltkrieg, denen die Wehrmacht nichts Gleichwertiges entgegenzusetzen hatte, begann in der Folge auch bei ...