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Veterans Day Special: A Gallery of Heroes
By Al HemingwayWhen the United States was plunged into World War II on December 7, 1941, more than 16 million Americans answered their country’s call and donned a uniform. Read more
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The Gallic Wars: To Northern Gaul
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckThe gray skies of winter still shrouded the town of Vesontio on the Dubis River. To the south, when not obscured by mist and rain, rose the Jura Mountains, and beyond that the lofty peaks of the Alps and the nearest Roman Province, Gallia Cisalpina. Read more
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Emperor Trajan & The Roman Empire
by Joseph M. HorodyskiThe ancient city of Selinus, a major trading center in Cilicia, sat atop a steep outcropping of rock that rises abruptly from the edge of the Mediterranean on the southern coast of Asia Minor, now modern Turkey. Read more
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The Gothic Wars Battle of Adrianople
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckIn 376 AD the Goths appeared on the lower Danube frontier of the Roman Empire. They came as a whole tribe, with warriors, women and children. Read more
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Colonel Saint-Chamans & The Battle of Leipzig
by Jonathan North[Editor’s note: The following are participant accounts—mainly those of Alfred Armand Robert Saint-Chamans—of Napoleon’s 1813 campaign in Germany ending in the decisive battle of Leipzig. Read more
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The Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Jena-Auerstadt
by Michael HaskewDuring much of his political and military career, Napoleon Bonaparte, perhaps the foremost figure in both arenas in the history of France, was at war with neighboring countries. Read more
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Emperor Julian “The Apostate”
By Kaveh Farrokh“[W]hen Emperor Julian had received the wound [in Persia], he filled his hand with blood, flung it into the air and cried, Thou hast won, O Galilean,” wrote Theodoret of Cyrus. Read more
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Books as G.I. Gear: The Story of ‘Armed Services Editions’
The American forces serving in World War II were composed primarily of citizen soldiers—people who had no notion of going to war until Pearl Harbor was attacked. Read more
