One of the basic functions of the war camp was to enable the army to rest during the campaign. For this purpose, a suitable place for a stop was necessary. It must have been above the water, in a place full of firewood and ...

Tents have served the wandering man since the earliest times, acting as a replacement for the building and a place to store his property. Iconographic sources provide a lot of interesting information about the appearance ...

In Israeli Defense Forces there are more than 6000 soldiers – volunteers in service from outside the country. Most of them come from the United States, France, Russia and Argentina. Their recruitment is mediated by such ...

The scientific problem of the paper is to define a soldier’s ethos while performing tasks in the Armed Forces at the turn of the 20th and 21st century. To this end, it was considered that place of serving, tradition and ...

Soldiers’ social centres, functioning in every pre-war unit of Polish Armed Forces, where common institution. Providing recreation in free time from official duties was their task. In the article the author focused on ...

The interwar period was still a colonial era. The biggest empires were profiting from their colonies, but the younger countries, that arose after the first world war, were aspiring to gain some overseas areas. In that era ...

The article based on a criminological analysis of penal transportation. The author talked over three main issues. Firstly, the paradigm of classical criminology that was valid in those days. Moreover, the researcher took ...

The article presents the events which followed the death of Edward VI on 6 July 1553. The opponents in the struggle for the crown were: the elder sister of the monarch Mary Tudor, and the great-granddaughter of Henry VII ...

On October 25, 1495, Manuel I the Lucky enters the throne of Portugal. This king, continuing the policy of his predecessor, John II, intensively financed commercial sea fishing expeditions. They contributed to the extraordinary ...