The Lusitania: Murder on The High Seas
From Epics of History: More Prisoners of Eternity.
The Tragedy of The Treaty of Versailles
An article looking at the failure of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to bring a lasting world peace.
The Amritsar Massacre: Shame of an Empire
From Epics of History: More Prisoners of Eternity.
Ghost: Real or Fake? Part 2
Yet another picture with a spooky story to match.
Why Did Britain Go to War in 1914?
A brief look at one angle as to why the British entered WW1.
Gavrilo Princip: Two Shots, 12 Million Dead
From Hero or Villain; More Prisoners of Eternity.
Tsar Nicholas II: A Guilty Man?
Some people, will acquire for themselves a small footnote in history. For most of us this is not so. We will live our lives, die, and soon be forgotten, and everything we did, and said, and were, will die with us. The characters featured in this book, have all made their mark on history. They will not be forgotten, but will live on in time, in legend, in reality, and in myth. This book is not intended, however, to be a thorough examination of their life and times. It merely paints the picture. It is popular history, a short-cut to events.
Much of the content can no doubt be debated, but then history is not a science. It is interpretative and in a constant state of flux, and in history evidence does not serve as proof
Unlike the millions who have come before us and the millions yet to come the characters of which I write did not pass through time, they were captured in time, and for all time. They truly are the Prisoners of Eternity.
WWI:The Schlueffen Plan
A brief description of the first plan and mistakes Germany made During the Great war: World War one.
Ernest Hemingway and D-Day, June 6th, 1944
Sixty-five years ago, in the early hours of 6th June, 1944 (D-Day) the American writer, Ernest Hemingway, was on a LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel) hoping to be the first war correspondent onto Omaha Beach…
We All Live in a Haunted Submarine
In Germany a submarine was called an U-boat, or “Unterseeboot”. At the outbreak of World War One, Germany had 33 of them. With the possibility of rich prizes off the British and Irish coasts and in the Channel, in early 1916 an entire flotilla of 24 U-boats was launched in the North Sea. One of them was the U-65, and from the very beginning there was talk about “jinxes” and “hoodoos”.





















