Dear Editor,
It is unfortunate James K. Swisher relied so heavily on unreliable secondary material on Patrick Ferguson. As a Scottish historian and author of a forthcoming book on Patrick Ferguson, I have worked on 21 years’ worth of his personal letters and wish to make some corrections. Read more
Days before the impending Battle of Trafalgar, a sailor on Horatio Nelson’s flagship Victory was so busy ensuring that each man’s letters home were secured for dispatch on a vessel bound for England that he forgot until after the ship had sailed that he hadn’t included his own. Read more
To this day the First World War remains contested territory: people still care passionately about it and hotly dispute its causes, character, and its legacies,” write the editors of The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Jay Winter, Geoffrey Parker, and Mary R. Read more
Dear Editor:
I really enjoyed Mike Markowitz’s article on the development of war machines of the Ancient Greeks (Weapons, February 2001). Read more
The 1942-43 struggle for Guadalcanal Island has, to my mind, an odd place in American memory. Americans are familiar with it, know it as a victory, but do not accord it the same honor as the Battle of Midway, or of Tarawa or Iwo Jima. Read more
Close Combat: Invasion Normandy is the fifth of SSI’s award-winning Close Combat games. Setup is done in a turn-based mode as the players put their forces in place. Read more
According to its publisher, the “Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Read more
Dear Editor,
Love your magazine and never miss an issue, especially articles about paratrooper exploits. I must, however, correct a Communique (letter) in your February 2001 issue where a C.F. Read more
In 480-479 bc, the combined city-states of Greece repelled a gigantic invasion by the massive Persian Empire, bent on bringing the Greeks to heel. Read more
This millennium year was replete, as most years are, with terrific works of military history. Following are my choices as the year’s best. Read more
Aviation militaria has always been popular with collectors, representing a fascinating aspect of 20th-century warfare. Among the more interesting items in this realm are the medals and flight log books from the airmen of the British Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Air Forces of World War II. Read more
Dear Editor,
I read with considerable interest John P. Sinnot’s article in the October 2000 issue of Military Heritage concerning the French and Indian War, here especially about General Braddock’s march on Fort Duquesne. Read more
Starting with practically nothing (at one point he and his family were reduced to digging up roots to have something to eat), Genghis Khan became the conqueror of the largest land empire known to history. Read more
The Panzer General Series from Strategic Simulations Incorporated is one of the most successful wargame franchises of all time. Read more
Dear Editors,
I enclose a copy of pages 60 and 61 of your May 2005 issue, which may contain an error. Read more
Ask anyone today to name the three toughest, most important battles of World War II and chances are good that the name “Iwo Jima” will be at, or somewhere near, the top of the list. Read more
On July 15, 1937, a convoy of trucks slowly drove up the Ettersberg, a wooded hill a few miles north of the German city of Weimar. Read more
