Featured Firearm: July, 2025
Chinese Contract Kar98k
The end of a decades-long partnership between German arms manufacturers and China was a small lot of Kar98k Mauser rifles sent to Chiang Kai-Shek’s armies in the late 1930s.
Featured Firearm
Day by Day History
Manila: 1945 - Exercise Rhine: 1941 - Hue: 1968 - Tannenberg: 1914
Follow historical battles day by day in episodic format, with additional contextual posts about leaders, weapons and battlefields
Biographic: August, 2024
Hermann von Francois
One of the most aggressive commanders in the German Imperial Army, Hermann von Francois clashed with nearly every immediate superior he had. Twice decorated with the Pour le Merite, he would be forced out by his rival Ludendorff shortly before the end of the Great War.
From the Collection: December, 2023
1940 Italian 5 Lire Banknote
From the Collection: A banknote from the Fascist Era of Italy
World War Two Briefing - Part Three, Chapter 34 - The War - Special
Operation Bagration
22 June - 19 August, 1944
Concurrent to the re-opening of the Western Front in Normandy, the Soviets launch their own massive offensive on the Eastern Front, tearing the German lines open and destroying Army Group Center in an operation that will leave them at the gates of the Reich itself.
New to the Collection
M1917 Enfield Rifle
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Restoration Projects
German Mauser DSM34 Trainer
German Mannlicher G98/40
US WWII M1 Helmet