The Vicksburg Campaign

When the sun set on the Confederacy, the stars began to rise and shine, none more brightly for Northerners than that of Lincoln, and for Southerners than those of Robert E. Read more

Commanding WWII tanks and Japanese feudal armies.

Steel Panthers was a great DOS game. It was WW II tank combat at its best in the same format as all the wonderful Avalon Hill games people used to play before they had computers. Read more

Good reading on an officer of the Revolution, Admiral Nelson, Tankers in Iraq and more.

John Laurens’ identity, indeed his very being, was tied directly to his status as an officer during the American Revolution. Read more

Cornelius Ryan

Anyone interested in reading military history sooner or later comes around to Cornelius Ryan, known to his friends as Connie. He wrote stunning books on World War II: The Last Battle, about the struggle for Berlin; A Bridge Too Far, about the ill-fated race to cross the Rhine bridge at Arnhem in 1944; and, of course, the book with which his fame will always be linked, The Longest Day. Read more

255th Infantry Regiment

Dear Editors,

I enclose a copy of pages 60 and 61 of your May 2005 issue, which may contain an error. Read more

Hell in the Pacific

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

Infamous Camp Beechwood

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