Leaving for the front. This is a subject that is little discussed in the writing of history on the First World War. If the fights are always very well described, the one-way trip to death, for many men, is not often studied. How do they reach eastern France, or the other different European fronts su
On April 7, 1941, colonel Thomas Pentzopoulos was in the Monastery of the then Yugoslavia. The colonel was emissaries of the Greek General Staff (GS) with the aim of clarifying the situation and establishing liaison with the Yugoslav general staff. Until then, the information that the Greek headquar
We return to this series of entries on historical annotations of the film The King with the themes that we announced at the end of the first article dedicated to the subject. – The execution of the Earl of Cambridge and Lord Grey :in the movie, Henry V learns that the Earl of Cambridge and Lord Gra
The armored phalanx was of course the supreme weapon of the Greeks. But no weapon alone is sufficient for success. The Greeks knew this from prehistoric times, when they defeated their opponents thanks to the close connection between the various weapons of their armies. This was also true in clas