Four British warships and a dozen gunboats entered the northern end of Lake Champlain in September 1814, sailing down to the generally peaceful Cumberland Bay, where they clashed with American vessels under the command of 30-year-old Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough. Read more
On the eve of Operation Overlord, members of the French Resistance cut dozens of major long-distance and underground cables the Germans had installed during their occupation of France—forcing them to use radios vulnerable to interception by Allied intelligence—just as they faced the largest amphibious assault in history. Read more
After George Washington, Major General Nathanael Greene was the best officer in the Continental Army. When Washington needed a general to rescue the desperate southern situation, he chose the already battle-hardened Quaker from Rhode Island—whose southern campaign was brilliant. Read more
Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France (Nicholas Reynolds and Katie Sanders, Harper Horizon, Nashville, TN, 304 pp., Read more
On September 16, 1944, Adolf Hitler revealed his master plan for reversing Germany’s declining fortunes in the West during World War II. Read more
For Union Lieutenant Harrison Millard, it was an unsettling development. An aide on the staff of Brig. Gen. Read more
World War II had been in progress for six weeks when on the evening of October 12, 1939, the German submarine U-47 surfaced off the Orkney Islands at the northern tip of Scotland. Read more
Fresh from his capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Colonel Benedict Arnold in the summer of 1775 lobbied hard to the Continental Congress for authorization to lead an expedition to the lower St. Read more
Newspaper artist Howard Brodie enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, soon joining the combat artist program. He was sent by Yank magazine to capture his impressions of the war with a pencil during the Guadalcanal campaign and then the fighting in Europe. Read more
In central New York, 50 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River, is a small spit of land known as Bannerman Island. Read more
The author presents a study in contrasts: Imperial Japan’s internal struggle between military fanatics and those seeking peace amidst the continuous destruction of their homeland, balanced against America’s intense debate over using nuclear weapons to shock Japan into surrender and prevent a prolonged, bloody invasion. Read more
Chronicles the meteoric rise of U.S. military aviation through the career of General Henry “Hap” Arnold, who led the Army Air Forces to global supremacy. Read more
Handsome, daring, and intrinsically heroic, Marine Corps Col. Peter J. Ortiz seems more like a figure created in Hollywood than a real-life operative. Read more
This first volume of a trilogy on WWII by a professor of the History of War and Society at King’s College London re-examines the origins and opening phase of global conflict from 1931 to 1941. Read more
Livingstone’s well-researched account of the post-WWII Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (November 1945–October 1946) succeeds in restoring what has largely been left out of historical narratives of the twentieth century’s most famous trial—the contributions of women. Read more
First launched for PC in March 2026, the multiplayer action game Over The Top: WWI has thousands of reviews on Steam for what currently sits at a “Very Positive” distinction. Read more
Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Kite Games unleashed Sudden Strike 5 earlier this year, but there’s no time to take a breather from all the real-time tactical warfare. Read more
Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune and Stars and Stripes reporter Peter Furst drove into one of the Nazis’ most infamous concentration camps with the U.S. Read more
American infantrymen in jeeps and halftracks raced for a bridge over the Inn River. If they captured it intact, they could cross from Germany into Austria and capture the town of Braunau, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Read more
On September 11, 1944, the U.S. First Army began its attack into Germany at the Belgium/Luxembourg border, its vaunted VII Corps in the lead. Read more
