OVERLORD'S BLOG

Some weeks ago I ran the design a tank competition. The number of entries was rather low, as in, only two designs. One design came in, on th...

Last week I asked if the tank is dead, which it is not. However, I suggested the shape of the tank may well change. But change to what? Well...

Events in the Nagorno-Karabakh war back in September 2020 hinted at the new reality of warfare. These truths were thrown into sharp relief d...

Hello Historians, I am still alive and doing history stuff. As you may have gathered, it has not left me much time to do full articles. I do...

Over the years (soon to be decades!) I have been writing these articles I have focused on a great many items to bridge elements of the stor...

On the 24th of February, 1815, two days before Napoleon escaped from Elba, and four months before the Battle of Waterloo, a huge ship of the...

 Hello Historians, and happy new year! I realise I've been very lacking in content of late, and once again I can only apologise. As I am...

Early in the day, on the 25th of March 1944, Flying Officer Douglas Jackson Turner and his co-pilot Flight Lieutenant Des Curtis were sittin...

 On 13th February 1849 a lowly shoemaker living in Tilsit, in Prussia, met his brand-new son. The son’s name was Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, an...

 What I find interesting, and I’m not sure if I’ve said it before, is how Britain studied the effects of German bombing conducted during the...