A young widow named Anna made her way slowly through the streets of Zurich on a cold January morning in…
Early in the morning of November 6, 1632, a heavy morning mist hung over the fields around Lützen. In…
Editor’s Note: This post on Tales of Mighty Men comes to us from Stephen Huffman The young queen gazed out between the…
One of the most dramatic battles of the Middle Ages unfolds as Catholic Crusaders meet Protestant Hussites under Jan Zizka!
Zizka is a incredible figure in military history - a one eyed Protestant warrior who formed the Czech peasants into…
Did you know that a precursor to tanks faced knights on medieval battlefields? The Hussite war wagons were a technological…
How the Hussites turned from a religious movement to a militant force, under attack from a Catholic crusade.
How throwing someone out of a window began the Hussite wars
In this second part of the story of the life of Jan Hus, hear how he grows in prominence, opposes…