Wars of The World

In the spring of 1980, six armed individuals marched into the Iranian Embassy in South Kensington - London, England, where they took 26 people hostage, including visitors, staff and even a police officer. Over the course of five days, the group of gunmen made various demands, but progress was slow and British officials were more interested in negotiating for the safe return of the hostages. On day six, following the death of a hostage, the SAS conducted a raid, killing all but one of the gunmen.

This siege not only thrust the SAS into the spotlight but also served to strengthen the UK government and the careers of several journalists who’d been caught in the crosshairs. Welcome to Wars of the World.
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The Schutzstaffel, best known by its shortened name the SS, was a paramilitary organisation operating beneath Adolf Hitler during the Second World War. Beginning as a volunteer guard unit which acted as Hitler’s personal bodyguards, it eventually grew to become one of the most feared and powerful organisations in Nazi Germany, known for its rampant surveillance and ruthless punishments of those who didn’t swear loyalty to the Fuhrer. Worse still, the SS played a huge part in the Holocaust and was responsible for the dispatching of millions of Jews and other victims between 1939 and 1945.
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The September 11th attacks in 2001 were quick to ignite America’s ‘Global War on Terrorism’. The main goal of this new conflict was to locate and destroy the terrorists responsible for the attack, with US leadership soon determining that the very group they were looking for was residing in Afghanistan. Over the years, Afghanistan had witnessed the rise of the Taliban, an extremist militant movement that had taken over the country with the help of al Qaeda. In late 2001, the US, aided by anti-Taliban tribe leaders, sought to overthrow the regime, with one of their biggest targets being the city of Kandahar. Welcome to Wars of the World
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In the summer of 1815, the gruelling Battle of Waterloo raged. It would be the conflict that would finally put an end to the intermittent warfare between France and other European powers, and usher in the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte. But this bloody engagement would be costly, with Napoleon suffering as many as 26,000 casualties while European forces suffered around 24,000. It is considered the second bloodiest single-day battle in the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Falklands War raged between Argentina and the UK over the course of ten weeks in 1982, with the conflict being part of a bigger dispute over the sovereignty of the territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The difficult battle led to a total of 1,137 casualties for the British, including 107 captured, while the Argentinians suffered 13,619 casualties, including over 11,000 captured. The Falklands War has been the subject of numerous books, films and even songs over the years and is still a controversial conflict to this day.
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