List of author's articles

The life story of a partisan commander who reached the rank of general and under whose command the captain Ján Nálepka passed with his soldiers

History of the brigade level in the US military, from the Washington Brigades to the current brigade combat commands, which form the basic combat element of the current ground forces.

Lieutenant Shrapnel served in the British Army with artillery. At his own expense, he was involved in the development of new ammunition, and in 1784 he came up with an invention he called ammunition with a spherical case. It was a hollow cannonball that was filled with lead shot and exploded in the air above the ground.

Göring was officially the second man of the Nazi regime. However, his star was gradually fading. The failure of the Battle of Britain, the constant bombing raids on Germany and the nonsensical guarantee of the possibility of supplying the 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad by air played a major role in this. Göring then withdrew considerably from public life and devoted himself more to his hobbies - hunting and stolen art objects. At the end of Nazi rule, he tried to take power and negotiate with the Americans and British. When Hitler found out, he stripped him of all his posts. Göring was the most prominent figure among the officials of Nazi Germany indicted and tried at the Nuremberg Tribunal. He was sentenced to death for his prominent role in Nazi crimes. However, he avoided execution by committing suicide by poison.

He never flattered the masses of the people and had the courage to represent his convictions down and up.

Kurt Max Franz Daluege was chief of the national uniformed Ordnungspolizei of Nazi Germany. Following Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in 1942, he served as Deputy Protector for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Daluege directed the German measures of retribution for the assassination, including the Lidice massacre. After the end of World War II, he was extradited to Czechoslovakia, tried, convicted and executed in 1946.

Major Jiří Jelínek joined the Austro-Hungarian army as a reserve officer as soon as he was mobilized at the beginning of the First World War. He fought on the Serbian front and in December 1914 he was captured. In October 1915 he joined the Serbian army. In the position of company commander, he was awarded several times for bravery in the fighting on the Thessaloniki front. He was one of the few to receive the honorary title of "Junak". From the spring of 1918 he worked for the Czechoslovak. legions in France and at the end of the war he was company commander of the 35th Rifle Regiment in Italy.

Maroboduus was a king of the Marcomanni, who were a Germanic Suebian people. He spent part of his youth in Rome, and returning, found his people under pressure from invasions by the Roman empire between the Rhine and Elbe. He led them into the forests of Bohemia, near to the Quadi who already lived nearby, and established a large alliance.

Beria was one of the worst phenomena produced by the Stalinist Bolshevik system. He has a significant share in the unfortunate fate of millions of Soviet and foreign citizens. He was not, unlike some of his predecessors or colleagues, a "mentally limited butcher" and he was also blessed with some insight, but this in no way diminishes the gravity of his negative deeds.

An article on the conquest of the strategically located island of Pantelleria and the adjacent islands of Lampedusa, Linosa and Lampione in 1943, as well as on the (in)effectiveness and importance of aerial bombardment.

Philip the Contentious (German: Philipp der Streitbare), a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was a titular Count Palatine of the Rhine and ruling Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1541.

The story of the American fighter ace of the Vietnam War with five victories. He was the first of two American pilots to become an ace in the Vietnam War. At the same time, he was also the last American pilot to become a fighter ace.