Debacle at Luban

Dear Editor:

I read the “Debacle at Luban” article in your July 2007 issue with much interest. The study of this unknown campaign gives the reader a clearer insight than he can get from the study of famous battles which are distorted by myth and legend. Read more

The Battle for Khartoum

By Al Hemingway

He was known as Mohammed Ahmed and he was born in 1844 at Dirar, a small island near the Third Cataract of the Nile River, in the Sudanese village of Dongala. Read more

Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

By Al Hemingway

Hero or scapegoat? Even with the passage of nearly 144 years since the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania, controversy still shadows the role—or lack of role—played by one of General Robert E. Read more

History is often stranger than fiction

By Mason B. Webb

Just when one thinks that there could not be another “untold” story about World War II, along comes a writer like Dan Kurzman with a new book about a previously untold story: the Nazis’ plan to kidnap Pope Pius XII. Read more

Americans at the Bulge

Dear Editor:

As the author of Patton’s Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, I read with great interest Major General Michael Reynolds’s article (March 2007 issue) regarding the 1st SS Panzer Division’s attack against the east side of the Bastogne relief corridor. Read more

The summer of 1942 doomed the expansion of Imperial Japan.

Sixty-five years ago, the fortunes of war in the Pacific changed irreversibly for the Japanese. Since 1931, Japan’s army had asserted control over territory on the continent of Asia, brushing aside Chinese resistance, condemnation and political pressure from other nations, and most recently, the Allied military. Read more

Once out of hedgerow country, Sherman tanks of the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade roll in support of the 2nd Canadian Division during Operation Tractable.

Sherman versus Tiger

Dear Sir,

Isn’t it time you told it like it really was about the breakout from the Normandy beach-head? That the Sherman tanks the Allies had were absolutely no match for the German tanks, and that the Americans had refused to countenance attempts by the British to upgrade the Sherman’s peashooter gun with the Firefly because they couldn’t accept a non-American gun on an American tank? Read more

A Time for Heroes

By Resa Nelson

For the past several years, three Hollywood studios waged war over the right to make a new movie about the Battle of Thermopylae (480 bc), in which a few hundred Spartans kept an enormous invading Persian army at bay for three days. Read more

Life of a Colossus

By Al Hemingway

To say that Caius Julius Caesar was one of the most influential men in world history is still something of an understatement. Read more

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