America’s Splinter Fleet vs. Germany’s World War I U-Boats
America’s much-derided ‘splinter fleet’ of wooden subchasers took the fight to German U-boats in the last months of World War I. More »
America’s much-derided ‘splinter fleet’ of wooden subchasers took the fight to German U-boats in the last months of World War I. More »
When she died in 1979, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called Hanna Reitsch ‘the most successful woman flier of all time.’ More »
The Allies and their air warfare strategic bombing and fighter strategy did not come up with a winning formula in Europe for a long time. More »
This week, author and Civil War Quarterly editor Roy Morris Jr. shares with us his personal list of the main Civil War generals who defined the war and shaped its outcome for the North and the South. More »
The soldiers who clashed after the General Sherman incident and subsequent ‘Shinmiyangyo,’ or Korean Expedition by U.S. forces, represented different cultures and different centuries. More »
From the Renault FT to the British Mark V and German Sturmpanzerwagen A7V, a great many WWI tanks were innovations in military technology. More »
After his shocking defeat at Leipzig, all that stood between a sullen Napoleon Bonaparte and France was a lone Austro-Bavarian army at Hanau. More »
The versatile Martini-Henry rifle was a mainstay of the British Empire during Queen Victoria’s numerous ‘little’ wars. More »
By William F. Floyd, Jr.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who was attired in civilian clothing in keeping with his role as an observer More »
By David A. Norris
Lieutenant William B. Cushing’s Union Navy steam launch chugged up the dark Roanoke River late in 1864. Any moment, her hand-picked crew More »
