In October 2007 Pen & Sword published my "A Guide to Military History on the Internet", with descriptions of some 1500 military websites. I included two appendices on the top websites and weird and wonderful websites.


These are sites which covered unusual (or plain weird) subjects or just amused me, and which I thought deserved greater recognition:

www.strange-mecha.com/index-e.htm the Strange Mechanism Museum of Japan has many pages about experimental weapons and projects which never took off in the Japanese and German armies.

www.geocities.com/davidbofinger/ah.htm has pages of alternative histories. They are particularly interesting for the Second World War. There are links - via the webring to other sites on a similar theme.

http://ldb1.narod.ru/index2.html is an extremely slow loading site (in fractured English, German and Russian) about one Russian's experiences - Dmitry B Lomonosov -during the Great Patriotic War.

www.1879memorials.com is a somewhat eccentric site (if you are in doubt visit the page devoted to gravestones of fictional characters) tracing memorials of the men who fought during the Zulu War. You get a flavour of the hysteria of the chase and the strange things which happen to a group of obsessives.

www.kaiserlicherautomobilclub.de  is an unusual site devoted to the German Imperial Automobile Club, which had a military corps attached to it. You can listen to the Club song 'Hurrah, Hurrah The Kaiser Is Coming".

www.scotcrash.homecall.co.uk is the wonderfully self-deprecating site of "Two men and a dog [who] boldly go to seek out historic aircraft crash sites among the Hills, Munros and Mountains of Scotland" with some nice photographs.

Buy Military History on the Internet so I can afford some new clothe.If you have suggestions for more weird and wonderful military websites please get in touch.