ATC versus CNAC at the Hump

Dear Editor:

The article in your July 2007 issue, “Over the Hump” by Sam McGowan was an ambitious undertaking as the statistics by the ATC (Air Transport Command), U.S. Read more

Kurt Waldheim’s diplomatic service was tainted by his Nazi past.

When former United Nations Secretary General and President of Austria Kurt Waldheim died on June 14 of this year, he had been officially barred from entry into the United States for 20 years. Read more

Swashbucklers Of The China Skies

During the dark, early days of World War II, when the Imperial Japanese army, navy, and air force were running roughshod over Asia and the Pacific, it seemed that nothing could stop them. Read more

Three new games simulate modern-day helicopter combat.

Enemy Engaged 2, from G2 Games for the PC, is a sequel that was seven years in the coming. Read more

T.F. Wilson’s Memoir of the Indian Mutiny

Although the bloody Sepoy insurrection of 1857 was SPARK- ed by the introduction of the new Enfield rifle, the seeds of mistrust between Indian soldiers and their British colonial masters were planted long before that. Read more

The Ohio Valley Military Society’s 15th Annual Show of Shows attracted collectors from all over the world.

One of the finest collections of militaria ever housed in one room was on hand in Louisville, Kentucky, at the 15th annual Show of Shows. Read more

Leaders would do well to remember Dwight Eisenhower’s warning: “Every war will astonish you.”

With the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq still overshadowing all aspects of American life, it is too early to predict what historians will say definitively about the enterprise. Read more

Three new games feature arcade-style warfare.

Much more of an arcade feel this issue as we don’t have any hardcore sims on hand. Read more

Recalling the devastation of Dresden

It is highly unusual in the publishing world for two books to come out in the same year on the same topic with the same title (and even the same photo on their covers). Read more

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 Desert Fox was respected by both friend and foe.

By the time Erwin Rommel arrived in the Libyan desert in February 1941 he was already a national hero in Germany. Read more

G5 Software brings a Russian viewpoint to the Vietnam War.

One of the odd joys of the 21st century is being able to see ourselves as others see us via the games they make about us. Read more

The Battle for Khartoum

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

Go to battle for Sparta, Persia, or Egypt in Ancient Wars: Sparta.

Going in chronological order this time, things begin with Torsten (The Settlers) Hess’s new game, Ancient Wars: Sparta for the PC from Playlogic and Eidos Interactive. Read more

Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

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

Submarine warfare is an excellent genre for gaming.

It is funny how genres come and go. A book becomes a best seller and suddenly there are a plethora of submarine games (and movies). 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

Refight the major battles of WWII on the Wii.

Early last year, Nintendo released a new game console with the unlikely name of Wii. Anyone reading this column has probably heard of it. Read more