Category: Stories from history
Guadalajara · 1937
Hidalgo de Cisneros’s adventure
The head of the Republican air force finds himself escorted by two Fiat fighters with enemy markings… which turn out to be his own.
North Africa · 1941
Ravenstein captured
The commander of the 21st Panzer Division tries to pass himself off as a colonel, but Prussian etiquette gives him away.
Thirty Years' War · 1621
“Pour Dieu et pour elle”
Christian of Brunswick sews the Winter Queen's glove to his hat and goes to war for the Protestant cause.
Spanish Civil War · 1937
Kondor captured
A Condor Legion Bf 109 lands almost intact behind Republican lines, and half of Europe wants to examine it.
Antwerp · 16th century
Two million burned
An Antwerp banker invites Emperor Charles V to dinner and, for dessert, burns the note for his loan.