Krigshistorie

Skirmishes and conflicts in the Balkans Observant empires draw their battle plans 1913 - Before the storm World war, at their doors... Before the storm... 

A thunderous army marches on Towards the river of Gabat As the dusk falls on the encampments Another murderous day ahead Amba Aradam Encirclement warfare... Amba Aradam Encirclement warfare... Encirclement warfare... An Abyssinian counter...

Barbarossa; blitzkrieg across the vast Russian steppe The smoke of the burning villages enshrouds the land Merciless efficiency for combat and war Artillery falling at the Kremlin's doors Iron Eagle at the gates of Moscow Soviet defenders holding th...

the battle plans have been confirmed an offensive push through enemy lines awaiting the dusk, awaiting the battle the engines hum in a mechanized chorus the enemy is enclosing from beyond the horizon the battle soon to commence an apocalyptic cl...

At the opening of war on the Western Front A blitzkrieg through Belgium into France Atrocities of war at the enemy's door Conquest unlike any seen before Through unprecedented resistance Laying siege to the great forts of bygone war A great line of...

Far from friendly harbor Beyond the vast midnight seas The horizon silhoutted with steel The course is plotted and the turbines roar An armada of unprecidented scale Battleships in the morning mist The distance draws near The turrets are fixed...

Serbians ascending the fortified slopes Artillery, mortars and machineguns roar Austro-Hungarian resistance ablaze From Drina to Sabac and beyond, fires rage Villages adorned with the ornaments of war Divisions advance, retreat, and repeat Twist...

Twilight falls across the Western Front The aces take to the skies The embers of war glow a thousand feet below Shredding the clouds with machinegun rounds Dogfights on the burning horizon... Burning skeletons of aircraft fall from the sky As ano...

as the dawn breaks the machines march forward battle lines are drawn an endless vast horizon of eastern battlefields under never ending snow and rain mechanized conflagration armored warfare on a scale never seen before shredding the landscape d...

After three long years of war A great spring offensive is born As always this plan will bring victory So the leaders claim... Empire: 1917 A juggernaut of iron and flesh Empire: 1917 Whose soldiers could not see war's end These were times of...

As the rain falls upon the front And the trenches run with blood The distant cries of terror resound Amidst a chorus of machinegun fire Mounds of rotting dead Twisted, burning land Ein strom über leichen The river of corpses In the godless fi...

Theories and philosophies and grand battle-plans Written in an age before the modernized war Middle-age mentality of static castle siege Adopted en masse across European lands Maginot... and the Siegfried line Entire cities surrounded by barbed-wire...

In the cold hours of dawn The soldiers ready up for a frontal charge Fixing bayonets and saying their prayers The time of death draws near For their respective leaders Over the top for imperial war Forward soldiers! Glorious imperial war! Forw...

A world devoid of pulse; in void Torn from itself by war and strife Massive legions of man and machine Under the flag of war, and the symbol of death In absence of god Unholy war marches on Human life is cast aside God is dead to us God is de...

After the guns have fallen silent And a desolate silence spreads A generation gone... An overwhelming sight of the fields of dead To end all wars? Traumatized Europe: in peace and ruin More misery soon begins Shellshocked nations gather their de...

the first light comes everywhere the dead seem to lie their spirits wandering in confusion ghosts tethered to their iron skeletons carved upon these stones a mass grave for those who fell the dead forests still burn in silence nothing but the s...

the battle scarred kursk salient a twisted land of fire and steel born here were legends of war stories of chaos and bloodshed the neverending year of 1943 words cannot describe the terror tank divisions silently rust hatred seeps from the bloo...

Desperate armies in stalemate Tunneling furiously 'neath no man's land In cold darkness they lay their mines At the strike of dawn it will obliterate their lines Massive eruption of earth and stone Ripping through the skies with the enemy's cries...

Elder order of warriors From an older age of battle Homefront Austro-Hungarian defenders With battalions poised to attack Landsturm Stormtroops fighting on Landsturm For comrade and country As the threat encloses Resistance must stand it's...

Wartime dawn arrives under frozen skies The roar of the engines heard from below Reconaissance and combat; dodging anti-aircraft fire Aerial combat in a new age of war Luftkrieger - Warriors of the sky Luftkrieger - Born to fight and die Luftkrieg...

Marching to the frontlines of battle With heads held high and hope in their hearts Under war plans of a bygone time No one believed it would last for long... Mud and blood The terror of war comes alive Artillery bombardments never seem to end S...

As the dead of war litter the land Disease and plague breed and spread Black vicious death Plague of man is born Sweeping the continents In a silent bio-war 

Axis storm into the Netherlands 10th of May, 1940 - The offensive begins A swift conquest denied; resistance holding the lines 15th of May, and surrender descends again Rotterdam Bombed into submission Rotterdam Condemned to the flames The gr...

...and so, it has come to an end Six years past since the battles began Withdrawn beyond the Rhine Fortress Berlin; the final front line Stahl und blut The final battle begins Stahl und blut Terra Europa; bloodied and beaten The old, the sick...

War; in the north For countless months... we dreamt of the shores Battles on the open sea Counted by the shells and the bodies Storming Baltic waves... War; at Stalin's door Upon the waves... and upon the plains The arctic tomb This is where...

Ancient battlefield Scene of countless deaths Tannenberg aflame again Prussian stronghold; Eastern Front Russian battalions at the gates Teutonic kingdom burning in the night Fierce resistance on this day Tannenberg aflame War of attrition...

The skies of war darken as the autumn arrives The battlefields become miserable swamps The dead and dying drowning in shell holes Plague and disease spread through the trenches The autumn rains come The death tolls mount Putrid rotting cesspits...

Austrian offensive at Lazaravec Fierce combat in the mud and snow Soldiers falling from disease and cold Battle for the railways to Belgrade's door The Battle of Kolubara War marches on... Serbian withdrawal; Belgrade abandoned The armies and c...

From the trenches the enemy advances Behind us the launchers cry From above the air war continues On the ground begins a mustard gas attack Crammed inside the bunker Gas mask on and waiting to die Outside the men are pulverized As enemy batterie...

Dead autumn months on the Eastern Front in 1941 Seasons passing towards the bitter arctic cold The dead soul of winter breathes it's breath upon the land Man and machine roll on to the battle hymns of old Frozen corpses litter the streets Cities bur...

Where the rivers flow to the sea So flows the blood and the bodies Refuse of war and the wreckage of man Flowing beyond the sands of time The earth in exodus As our skeletons rust The earth in exodus Buried by human dust When the skies fall u...

Dug into the slopes of Amba Boraka All-out Abyssinian attack on the line Aimlessly they wander into machinegun fire Mortar and artillery shells break their ranks The final battle Mai Ceu... The firefight shifts to Mekan Pass Eritreans and Ital...

Military conflagration around Warieu Pass The Blackshirts waging war on Abyssinian shores Beyond the passes of Abaro Artillery, poison gas and bombing runs Embattled and surrounded The 28th October regiment Holding the lines under fire Eritrean...

Enemy in range Turrets fixed and waiting Finally the command arrives The first salvo of dawn The first salvo of dawn... Cannon fire erupts From everywhere and nowhere Burning corpses floating In a sea of horror Twisted carcasses battling...

Desperate times of war and strife A continent aflame Millions of soldiers marching to the lines A generation to the grave In the great desolation All eyes upon the Western Front In a land of devastation The minds of men; destroyed by war Nigh...

From the dawn of time Until far beyond our end The north atlantic waves Forever a grave of man... Forever a graveyard of man... Centuries of war Fought here... Countless sunken graves Millenia of conquest And exploration... Millions slumb...

Defending the Geba valley A labyrinth of rocky forests and streams Another Abyssinian wave attack The landscape saturated with blood Midnight Alpine commando raid To massacre the enemy at Amba Work They leave the approaches unguarded And are sl...

The sirens sound Civilians scatter aimlessly Engines in the sky The screaming Stukas dive The shadow of the Stuka... Precision bombing attacks Resistance strongpoints neutralized Armored legions advancing Angels of death encircling... The...

Vast and wide; ocean skies Fires of war upon every shore Terrified Earth alive Witness to combatant mankind Forsaken desolate islands fortified for war Great armies in furious battle on forgotten atolls Like locusts the skies crawl with mechanical...

September 27th, 1939 The Polish Army surrenders the city An era of horror arrives Apocalypse under lifeless skies The Warsaw funeral pyre The body piles grow higher The Warsaw funeral pyre Skylines consumed by fire 1944; the people stand and...

Through the toxic smoke of the front lines of battle Across the endless fields of suffering and pain Beyond the twisted ramparts and the enemy dead Dead men advancing across trenchland On the Western Front for endless months A land stripped bare by...

The death of a single man The assassination of Franz Ferdinand Serbian involvement discovered Clandestine organization: "The Black Hand" Austrian outrage for their leader's blood European powers begin to involve themselves Demand for justice on Se...

Uneasy peace; the birth of madness In the wake of the storm of world war Maps are redrawn once again Countries bled dry by defeat Militant aggression in city streets Delirious propaganda of victory and defeat In the wake of the storm Of the grea...

Under constant artillery and mortar barrage Taking cover in the blood-filled bunkers An entire region pulverized Ypres reduced to a smoldering wasteland Tens of thousands dead Still they must battle on Curse this place Wasteland Ypres The cit...

Battlefield; Passchendaele Enemy enclosing again Curse this place Curse this place... Wasteland Ypres Screams of terror throughout the night Wasteland Ypres Charging over the top; praying for death Curse this place... Wasteland Ypres Thi...

February 1945 Night raid over the city arrives Dresden's sirens cry A million souls looking to the sky The blackest nightmare Suffocating, burning dead Falling ruins; streets aflame When fire fell from the sky The fires of hell lighting the n...