The Best Military History Books of 2000

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

Keeping a World Perspective

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

Genghis Khan and The Mongol Campaigns

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

Panzer General III and Battle Cry

The Panzer General Series from Strategic Simulations Incorporated is one of the most successful wargame franchises of all time. Read more

Presidio Press’ ‘Vinegar Joe’s War: Stilwell’s Campaign’s for Burma’

Historians often claim that the Allies, and most particularly the Americans, won World War II, as Nathan Prefer writes in his introduction of Vinegar Joe’s War: Stilwell’s Campaign’s for Burma, (Presidio Press, Inc., Read more

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

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