Young Churchill in Battle
By Christopher MiskimonYoung Winston Churchill expected to enter battle on September 1, 1898, but instead he watched as British gunboats bombarded Dervish forts. Read more
Portugal during WW2: Covering the Azores Gap
By Norman HerzThe year 1944 dawned with America already at war for over two years. In an event not marked by history books, the 96th Navy Construction Battalion, Seabees, crossed the Atlantic from Davisville, Rhode Island, on the Abraham Lincoln, a converted banana boat escorted by two destroyers, the USS Ellis and USS Biddle. Read more
The Battle of Britain: Leadership and Logistics in Britain’s Skies
By Grant MatlaIt was a battle fought without armies. No rifles, no tanks, no barbed wire. In the summer of 1940, the skies above Britain served as the battlefield for the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe. Read more
Preview – Attentat 1942
By Joseph LusterMany of us have friends and family members who served in the military during World War II, but how intimately do we know their story? Read more
Review – Wolfenstein II: the New Colossus
By Joseph LusterWhen last we saw the mighty Captain William J. Blazkowicz, well, he wasn’t looking quite so mighty. Sure, he managed to score a major victory in the battle against the postwar alt-history Nazi regime, but he was left more or less on death’s fickle doorstep. Read more
Morale-Boosting Miracle
By Christopher MiskimonRoyal Engineer Robert Halliday was hungry. He had searched the town of Dunkirk, France, for food only to find nothing. Read more
Hitler’s blunder resulted in a devastating defeat for the German Army on the Eastern Front.
When Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941, he expected yet another in a string of spectacular victories. Read more
Operation Frantic On Eastern Front: Preview Of the Cold War
By Wil DeacEarly on the overcast afternoon of June 2, 1944, three white-starred Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses in V-formation roared over the Soviet air base at Poltava. Read more
Lost, Now Found
A few weeks ago, a surprising story was announced: the wreckage of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58 on July 30, 1945, had been located. Read more
Military Games to Ring in the New Year
By Joseph LusterIt’s been 12 years since the original version of Stronghold 2 followed up the first game, so it’s time to pay it a return visit in the form of Stronghold 2: Steam Edition. Read more
The Great War’s Eastern Front
By Chris MiskimonRussia was imploding in October 1917. The war combined with the numerous internal stresses of the nation, culminating in a civil war and Russia’s withdrawal from the greater war. Read more
Heavy infantry comes of age in the Swiss Confederacy.
The ambush of Duke King Leopold I’s army by Swiss foot soldiers on the mountain road at Morgarten in 1315 ushered in a roughly 200-year period where the hard-hitting Swiss maintained a reputation as elite foot soldiers. Read more
The Killing of Il Duce
By Blaine TaylorAt 3 am on Sunday, April 29, 1945, a yellow furniture truck stopped at the Piazzale Loreto, a vast, open traffic roundabout where five roads intersected in the northern Italian city of Milan. Read more
December 2017 World War II Games
By Joseph LusterDeveloper Kite Games’ Sudden Strike 4 recently made its way to consoles with a release on PlayStation 4, offering one of the rare opportunities to enjoy real-time World War II strategy on the system. Read more
Facing Reality in First Strike: Final Hour
By Joseph LusterBlindflug Studios’ First Strike: Final Hour seems especially topical right now, what with the looming tensions of nuclear war ever on the horizon. Read more
We Hit the Open Seas in the Whimsical, Battleship-like Sailcraft
By Joseph LusterHey, you sunk my battleship! If you grew up on board games, you definitely recall uttering that phrase, or at least hearing it over and over again on TV. Read more
The French Foreign Legion at Tuyen Quang
By Christopher MiskimonThe Chinese were coming, and the French Foreign Legion WAS preparing to meet them. In January 1885, 390 Legionnaires, backed by a handful of sailors, locally recruited troops, and eight sappers, busily fortified the old Chinese fort at Tuyen Quang. Read more
Holly Springs was Van Dorn’s ticket to fame.
The horsemen charged into the town from the northeast guns blazing and screaming the hair-raising Rebel yell. Yankees wearing their sleepwear struggled to get out of their tents in the dawn attack and then ran for their lives. Read more
Queen of the Desert: The Infantry ‘Matilda’ Tank
By Jon DiamondThe origins of the Matilda Tank or “I” Tank date back to 1934, when Maj. Gen. Percy C.S. Read more
Prelude to Iwo Jima: The Japanese Assault On B-29 Base On Marianas
By Michael P. SlaterFrom an altitude of 30,000 feet, the swift Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew high over Saipan and Tinian, photographing the brisk and extensive engineering effort under way on the American airfields far below. Read more
