Lars Gyllenhaal

Yes, I am reviewing a comic book now! But, trust me - it is seriously good. Now, Churchill is one fellow that is very hard to summarize. W...

Here in the French trenches things happened that greatly influenced J.R.R. Tolkien. The new Tolkien movie, simply called "Tolkien...

This book is filled with Soviet AFVs, including types most people have never seen. Once in a while a truly original book on armoured fight...

Fake history on the cover, Stalin was not part of Lenin´s homecoming via Sweden. As a student in Soviet Moscow 1991 I daily passed a gian...

Winter War volunteer Otto von Zwehl. Photo from the book cover. While researching for Swedes at War 1914-1945 I came across some pretty u...

Theodore Roosevelt, Badlands hunter and later president of the USA. Note the Tiffany bowie knife. Photo: George Grantham Baine By coincide...

Uniforms of the Swedish-led Persian gendarmerie were a mix of Sweden and Persia. The Iraqi city of Mosul is in the global news, but few ar...

The man who found Tarzan, Swedish soldier of fortune Ivor Thord-Gray, and the latest person to portray Tarzan, Swedish actor Alexander Skars...

In this former prison in Karlskrona, Sweden, one of Russia´s first aviators was imprisoned. I met and interviewed him in 1988. Today it is...

In 1914 we Swedes celebrated 100 years of peace, should we very soon celebrate the 200th anniversary, or ignore it? Journalists around the...

Sarajevo, where it all started. In less than tree weeks it will be exactly 100 years since the assassination in Sarajevo that ignited Worl...

German WWI cuff title kept in a museum in Gibraltar. While looking for something else I stumbled upon this photo of a German WWI cuff titl...

Uniform and memorabilia of the Swedish officers and NCOs who volunteered for Persia (Iran). PHOTO: Leif Nilsson/SMHA Swedes at War begins...

Captured British tanks were even on Red Square in Moscow, as this amazing clip from Russian TV shows. In Swedes at War there is a page ab...

A flaming hot alpine WWI reenactment produced just some weeks ago. Being especially interested of war in the Nordic area I have grown inte...

A German-designed Swedish m/38 tank with a Czech-designed m/37 in the background. Tempo Vidal grille far right. A few weeks ago I finally ...

Henrik Angell from Norway joined the French Foreign Legion and fought against the WWI German Army and early Red Army. Thanks to Henrik L, ...

Foreign legionnaire Elow Nilson is highlighted in the French edition of Swedish author Peter Englund's "The Beauty and the Sorrow...

This large-scale model of a "Mystery Ship" is exhibited in the Petrol Museum of Älvsbyn in Swedish Lapland. One of the most mo...

Herman Wirth, the first leader of the SS organization Ahnenerbe, spoke at this medical society in Stockholm in 1935. I recently wrote the fi...