I know about the aerial engagements over Vietnam, but were there any incidents in other places where it became public knowledge?

Online sources would be great :)

Enemy forces heroic act meaning for example one soldier's remarkable feat or enemy forces extraordinary bravery; fighting against all the odds. Also I should specify that has this possible acknowledgement happened during or after a wartime?

In Game of Thrones, it seems that any human interaction has a very high chance of somebody being raped, murdered, robbed, and/or tortured. Sometimes just looking at somebody wrong ends with five people dead. The assumption of George R.R. Martin, the makers of the show, and the fans seems to be that feudal societies are characterized by casual violence.

The few medieval texts I've read, however, such as several of The Canterbury Tales, do not seem nearly so pessimistic as Martin's series.

So my question is: to what degree was casual violence common during the middle ages, say during Chaucer's lifetime (mid-1300s) in England? Was it really so likely that I would be raped, murdered, or robbed if I were to encounter a random stranger on a road in the English countryside? And when these things did happen, to what degree was there an expectation of justice?

As far as what is pornography, what would get you thrown in prison for today.

I am an avid reader of such history but it's hugely weighted towards the Allies. I have read "Soldaten" (in translation), but found it a bit biased: all quotes are selective because they are the quotes that the British felt worth keeping when trying to prove war crimes. Accurate? Probably. Representative? I doubt it.

Entschuldigung, ich Sprache bissien Deutsche. Which ought to be enough to convince anyone that I need a good translated work.

Although 1.5 million deaths and deportations were not as high as the holocaust, it still defines the parameters for genocide. Why is this topic not covered as much or even receiving as much attention as the Holocaust? I personally did not learn about it until I was 19. Unlike the Germany who admitted the killing of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc, why hasn't Turkey admitted to the atrocities yet?

Dancing can get pretty sweaty, did strip clubs (and their older equivalents) smell awful before A/C and quality perfumes? How did they deal with that from say, the 1970s and back?

Hopefully this won't be seen as some variation of a poll. It just seems that most casual U.S. history buffs have very limited knowledge of events in the early 1860s that weren't related to the war, and I'm curious about other happenings during this time that fascinate experts on the period.

We were discussing Sigmund Freud's "Moses and Monotheism" today, and this idea about Moses being Egyptian royalty was completely new to me. Apparently this idea was not unique to Freud, but what evidence is there to substantiate this? Freud's devotion to logic and scientific analysis are well documented, so I can't help but think there was some kind of, at least in Freud's mind, reliable source for this.

[Light spoilers] Watching band of brothers there is a scene where an american born German is found with captured German troops, he says his family is all German and answered the call to fight.

Was this a well known occurrence?

What would be the punishment for an american caught fighting for the Germans?

Thanks for your time.

And follow-up question: Why did they end up with as much land as they did?

In case it's not clear, I'm referring to the 1974 invasion.

I'm talking about the Dutch colonies on the U.S. east coast. As a Belgian it confuses me why they called the New Netherlands in latin Nova Belgicum.

Did the British or colonial Australians ever enslave the aboriginal people or did they just push them into reservations?

We are learning about this time period leading up to WW1, in my history class and my teacher did not know the answer.

I'm just curious to see why.

I guess my question relates to how you always hear about the USA and USSR, but you never hear about what China, Japan, Canada, most countries in Europe, etc. were doing during the Cold War.

Only one invasion, the first at Wake Island, was defended successfully. Why was that defense successful and why was everybody else unable to stop amphibious attack?

Hi everyone! How's it going?

I was wondering if any African Historians could give me a quick overview of some of the major similarities and differences between Algeria and Mali from the Scramble for Africa up until about decolonization/independence? If you have any titles of books or journal articles I should read that would also be great!

I've been in an African Nationalism class this semester, and we've focused a lot on Western and Southern African. So I figured this would be a great jumping off point for me to start some research in the northern region.

From what I understand so far (which isn't a lot), the Algerian colony was taken over fairly early compared to Mali, which was colonized when the French Sudan became a priority after the Scramble for Africa. Compared to Algeria which seems to have had a higher number of French settlers in it, and a larger amount of racism, Mali primarily was left alone since it was fairly barren.