Game Features: Shenandoah Studios’ Battle of the Bulge
By Joseph LusterIt’s one thing to create games based solely on World War II, but how often do you see a developer focus so closely on a single battle? Read more
Words To Bayonets, Bayonets to Bombs: How the Civil War Escalated
By Roy Morris Jr.“Every war will astonish you,” American general Dwight D. Eisenhower said after World War II. As the leader of the Allied forces that successfully landed on D-Day and marched into Berlin 11 months later, Eisenhower obviously knew what he was talking about. Read more
Medal of Honor vs. Call of Duty
By Joseph LusterIs it really any surprise at this point that the latest Call of Duty title completely obliterated sales records upon its release? Read more
Locating the Altmark: An RAF Rescue Mission Beyond Compare
By Eric NiderostOn the morning of February 16, 1940, two Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson aircraft lifted off from Thornaby Airfield in northern England. Read more
MIS-X’s Shadowy Secrets: Aiding Allied POW Escapes
By Chuck LyonsDuring World War II, one American intelligence unit was so secret it was known only by its post office box number, 1142. Read more
Game Features: Cold War Battles That Might Have Been
by Joseph LusterFirst on our list is Suprreme Ruler: Cold War, which builds on Supreme Ruler 2010 and 2020 with the bubbling tension of the Cold War. Read more
Medal of Honor Awardee Horace Porter’s Astonishing Career
By Richard H. Owens, Ph.D.Horace Porter was born April 15, 1837 in Huntingdon, Pa. He traced his ancestry and family motto, “Vigilantia et virtute,” to William De La Grange, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. Read more
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
by Joseph LusterAir Conflicts: Secret Wars is the perfect example of a game for which the genre has a ton of competition on PC and very little comparable action on consoles. Read more
Frederick’s Devil’s Brigade & Bringing Back the V-42 Stiletto
By Michael HaskewThe fight at Monte La Difensa on December 3, 1943, was swift but brutal as members of the First Special Service Force, a combined unit of U.S. Read more
The Monitor & The Merrimack: The Battle of Hampton Roads
By Keith MiltonMost history books teach that the War between the States began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate batteries ringing Charleston harbor fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender the following day. Read more
The Repulse and Prince of Wales Battleships: How They Sunk
By Joseph M. HorodyskiDuring the 1920s and 1930s Great Britain built up its Far East defenses steadily if slowly, centering around Singapore as its primary naval base in the Pacific area. Read more
Exercise Tiger: Deadly D-Day Rehearsal
by Robert HeegeIt was spring 1944, and the morning sun was glinting off the face of the water as the Landing Ship, Tank (LST) transports chugged their way through the choppy surf and headed in close toward shore, their destination a gravel-strewn stretch of beach on the English Channel code named “U” for Utah. Read more
Joachim Peiper’s Escape from the Battle Of the Bulge
By Major General Michael ReynoldsBy December 24, 1944, the commander of the Sixth Panzer Army’s strongest battlegroup, SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Jochen Peiper, was facing the ultimate military nightmare. Read more
Erwin Rommel Frustrated By French Foreign Legion At Bir Hacheim
by Edward L. BimbergWhen Brig. Gen. Joseph-Pierre Koenig, commander of the 1st Free French Brigade, surveyed the area he had just been ordered to defend, he must have been mightily discouraged. Read more
Operation Jericho
by Joseph M. HorodyskiOn the bitterly cold, windswept morning of February 18, 1944, the crews of 19 De Havilland Mosquito Mk.VI Read more
Galeazzo Ciano’s Diary: The Inside Story of Mussolini’s Government
By Blaine TaylorOn July 19, 1940, fresh from his victorious campaigns on the Western Front, German Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler delivered his “peace speech” to the Reichstag in Berlin’s Kroll Opera House. Read more
Convoy PQ 17: A Story of Unprecedented Arctic Disaster
By Keith MiltonFirst Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound stopped tapping his pencil on the oaken desk and slowly leaned backward in the oversized leather chair. Read more
War Came Home to the Streets of Arnhem
By Christopher MiskimonBritish airborne troops were landing near Arnhem, Holland, on the morning of September 17, 1944. Despite the fact that elements of two veteran SS panzer divisions were reconstituting in the area, the Germans were taken much by surprise. Read more
Operation Magic Carpet
When World War II in Europe came to an end, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, published a victory message to the troops. Read more
Bushwhackers, Jayhawks, and Red Legs: Missouri’s Guerrilla War
By Steve LilleyFor the citizens of western Missouri, the Civil War effectively began with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. Read more
