Just like West Germany, post-WWII Italy found itself on the border with a communist dictatorship, Marshal Tito’s Yugoslavia. Even though … Continue reading Base Tuono – Cold War Surface-To-Air Missiles in Italy
The immense state of Texas is in the foreground of the panorama of historical aviation, thanks especially to the CAF – … Continue reading Warbirds in Texas
During the last two years of WWII, the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany was slowly retreating from the eastern front, pushed … Continue reading Hitler’s Mystery Mega-Structures in Central Europe
Belarus is exceptional in the panorama of post-soviet countries. Maybe thanks to its geographical location, next to the heart of … Continue reading Minsk – A Soviet Capital of the New Millennium
The Maginot line – a line of forts running along the French border with Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium – … Continue reading The Border Forts of Czechoslovakia Against Nazi Germany
Since during WWII, and even more during the early Cold War period, the Soviet Union invested much in the creation … Continue reading Soviet Aircraft in Minsk and Kiev
Between the end of WWII and the collapse of the USSR in the early Nineties, Germany was caught in the … Continue reading Traces of the Cold War in Southwest Germany
Historians defined World War I as the first ‘worldwide conflict’. There is probably no better place to appreciate the multi-ethnic … Continue reading WWI Battlefields – Somme, Arras and Ypres
Soon after the end of WWII it was realized that nuclear weapons could pose a real threat to the survival … Continue reading Regierungsbunker – Federal Germany’s Atomic Shelter
Soon after the end of WWI, the government and the top-ranking officials of the victorious French Army set plans for … Continue reading Forts of the Maginot Line
