Autor: Frank Pleszak

Very little is known in the west about the battles on the Eastern Front in the Great War. The Battle for the small town of Vileyka (now in Belarus), about 100km east of Vilnius, at the end of Septemb …

At the onset of the Second World War, Frank Pleszak’s father Miko Aaj, aged nineteen, was forcibly removed from his family in Poland by the Russian secret police and exiled to the harshest of the Sib …

Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is arguably one of the most famous airborne attacks in history. During the night of 16/17 May 1943, 133 men in nineteen specia …

Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is arguably one of the most famous airborne attacks in history. During the night of 16/17 May 1943, 133 men in nineteen specia …