That Winston Churchill tried to entice Turkey into the war is common knowledge. His secret motivation for doing so is much less well known.   More »

The volunteers of the Bulgarian Legion would fight under General Joseph Gourko in the Russo-Turkish War.   More »

Turkish troops made repeated attempts to recapture vital Shipka Pass through the Balkan Mountains. The five-day fight for the 4,500-foot-high pass would be the turning point of the Russo-Turkish War.   More »

Britain’s Special Operations Executive conducted abortive covert operations in Albania during 1943-1944.   More »

At Yalta, Churchill agreed to turn over to Stalin all captured Soviet Cossacks that had been on the German side. Surely he knew what that meant.   More »

To combat the threat of the Ottoman Empire, Austrian Emperor Leopold I sent an army under Prince Eugene of Savoy to strike the Ottomans at Zenta.   More »

The Later Crusades weren’t called as such during their time, but were considered pilgrimages by those who were said to be ‘taking the cross.’   More »

In an effort to change their fortunes in Russia, the Germans threw much of their best into the Battle of Kursk. But the Russians were waiting.   More »

The death of Emperor Valens and the Battle of Adrianople during the Gothic War, August 9, 378 AD, did much to set the course of history for the Goths.   More »

France concluded World War I’s Triple Entente with Great Britain and Russia in response to the threat of German imperialism across the continent.   More »