A new work on the Battle of the Little Big Horn assesses the veracity of survivors’ accounts of the battle.

Major Marcus Reno’s column fired the opening shots of the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. Read more

Choose Between Diplomacy and War in the Year 2027, and Take to the Battlefield in the Latest Crack at the Battle Royale Genre.

At this point, the year 2027 still sounds vaguely futuristic, even though it’s right around the corner. Read more

The U.S. Navy relied heavily on its versatile destroyers in two world wars to fulfill a variety of missions.

On November 1, 1943, a gunfight unfolded on the high seas. It began with a more conventional naval battle, a depth-charge attack by an American destroyer on a German U-boat. Read more

Lost Opportunity Along the North Anna River

The dirt roads leading from Spotsylvania toward the North Anna River 20 miles to the south were choked with blue-uniformed Union troops and gray-clad Confederate troops on May 21, 1864. Read more

Railway Empire: Germany Paves the Way for Locomotive Domination

Railway Empire has made a name for itself as a rail management simulator on PC and consoles, and the game recently laid its tracks even farther with a trip into the heart of Deutschland in the Railway Empire: Germany DLC. Read more

Air Conflicts Collection Brings Dogfighting to Switch

The Air Conflicts series of dogfighters has been buzzing around since 2006 and has inspired a number of sequels and spinoffs since its initial debut. Read more

The Invasion of Southern France Took Place 75 Years Ago

While the eyes of the world remained on Normandy during the difficult days that followed the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, a scant nine weeks later another amphibious invasion of France took place. Read more

Memoir of a Red Army Tanker

Just after 6 am on July 5, 1943, Vasiliy Krysov spotted the enemy. Six tanks moved slowly toward him and the SU-122 self-propelled gun he commanded. Read more

General James Van Fleet overcame a terrible misunderstanding and rose to the highest echelon of command in the U.S. Army.

Colonel James Van Fleet, commander of the 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, which splashed ashore at Utah Beach 75 years ago on D-Day, June 6, 1944, was an uncommon soldier. Read more

More World War II in the News

Hardly a month goes by that there isn’t something related to World War II in the news. Here’s a sampling of some recent news items—all from February 2019:

On January 3, 1944, the destroyer USS Turner (DD-648) exploded under still mysterious circumstances near the entrance to New York Harbor. Read more

The American Heavy Tank

A black Opel automobile raced through the streets of Cologne, Germany, on March 6, 1945. The driver, 40-year-old Michael Delling, was making a run for it. Read more

Cauldron of Destruction

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who was attired in civilian clothing in keeping with his role as an observer for U.S. Read more

Army Nurses Corps: Angels In Olive Drab

Of the many groups that fought in World War II and have been largely forgotten in the history of that great conflict, none are more neglected than the women who served and died doing their duty alongside the men of the United States Army. Read more

Sam Houston’s Stunning Victory at San Jacinto

On March 11, 1836, General Sam Houston rode into Gonzales, a small town near the Guadalupe River in Texas. Read more

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown [Review]

When it comes to arcade-style aerial action, there’s always been something special about Bandai Namco’s Ace Combat series. Read more

Russia’s Time of Troubles

The Varangians founded a number of fortified towns in Slavic Russia in the 9th century that would become seats of Eastern Christian principalities. Read more

The Story of America’s Lost Battalion in World War I Is a Saga of Citizen Soldiers Who Endured a Hellish Maelstrom of Combat

Lines of drab-uniformed soldiers emerged from their night march and moved down a forested road into open country on September 26, 1918. Read more

Slogging into the Reich

Lieutenant William Paul Chapman’s fellow soldiers were tank hunting on the afternoon of August 11, 1944. The Battle of Mortain was raging around them, a counterattack by a German armored spearhead against the growing and inexorable advance of the Allied armies out of the Normandy beachhead. Read more

The Bold British Stroke at Taranto Preceded the Royal Navy Victory at Cape Matapan

The great British Royal Navy victory at Cape Matapan sealed the fate of the Italian Regia Marina, rendering Mussolini’s fleet virtually impotent after the spring of 1941. Read more

Assault Gun Tanker

The German push west came to a violent end.

On December 19, 1944, the Panther and King Tiger tanks of SS Lt. Read more