New for the PC is Battlefront Games’ real-time squad-level strategy game, Theatre of War. Four years in the making and vetted by three historians, ToW is one of the most accurate portrayals of squad-level combat ever done in a fully 3-D computer game. Read more
He dug down to a half-rotted overshoe and tugged it free from the black soil at the bottom of the old foxhole. Read more
Iwo Jima was one of the toughest battles of World War II, and three new books provide perhaps the definitive word on that epic, month-long struggle in February and March 1945. Read more
Dear Editor,
I enjoyed Flint Whitlock’s article on the film stars in WWII, but I think you forgot one. Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front and others) served as a medic in the Philippines in 1944-1945. Read more
One of the new classics in war-themed board games is Wallenstein by German designer Dirk Henn from Queen Games. Read more
Just before 7:30 on the morning of July 1, 1916, an ear-shattering explosion shook the earth near the village of Beaumont-Hamel in France. Read more
Fellow poet William Butler Yeats once called Rupert Brooke “the handsomest man in England,” and few people who ever met Brooke—male or female—would have disagreed. Read more
Battlefront is a new battalion-level strategy game for the PC from SSG and Matrix Games. The game engine owes a lot to SSG’s Decisive Battles engine, and Battlefront has the look of a frame that a series of games will be built on. Read more
When U.S. Marines stormed ashore on the island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, American involvement in World War II was in its fourth year. Read more
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV is the preeminent strategy video game in the world. It optimizes all of the best features of the previous incarnations of the game and weds them to gameplay that was designed from the beginning to include multiplayer options. Read more
Whenever the name of Benedict Arnold is mentioned, people immediately think in terms of the traitorous act he attempted to perpetrate against the fledging United States of America in 1780 by surrendering West Point, New York, to the British. Read more
This month starts with a “What if?” board game. Island of Death: the Invasion of Malta, 1942 from Avalanche Press is only $20.00 and takes four hours at most to model one of the great “never happened” battles of World War II. Read more
Between 1939 and 1945, over 72,000 Allied sailors, Navy airmen, and merchant seamen lost their lives in the Atlantic Ocean while attempting to deliver the food, weapons, and other supplies desperately needed by Britain and the Soviet Union in their titanic struggle against Nazi Germany. Read more
Dear Editor,
In the September 2006 issue of your magazine there is, on page 42, an article about the Battle off Samar. Read more
After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s formal entry into World War II, isolationist sentiments in the United States were swept away and millions of men and women of all backgrounds rushed to recruiting centers to volunteer for military duty. Read more
Ancients is a terrific wargame genre, but it is hard to hold it to the same standards of historical accuracy as genres set in more recent historical times. Read more
On April15, 2004 in the Sunni triangle of Al Anbar Province in Iraq, a known haven for terrorists, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (code-named Warlord) were conducting search and clear operations. Read more
American servicemen and women around the globe don’t have to wait months for a letter from home; they are able to share their daily lives with friends and family via e-mail. Read more
Commandos Strike Force from Eidos Interactive for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC is a first person action game set behind the lines in Europe in 1942. Read more
For 82 days in the spring of 1945, a ferocious battle raged on a Pacific island called Okinawa—an island considered crucial for the planned invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Read more
