Luke Berryman’s ‘Resisting Nazism’

Berryman was inspired to collect these stories of resistance after researching the life of his grandfather Sam Mindel. Read more

Thunderbolts Strike the Bocage

As the pilots of the U.S. Army Air Force’s 510th Fighter Squadron hit their bunks on the night of June 5, 1944, the chatter among the “Buzzards” was the usual moaning about boring missions and wondering when they would see some real action. Read more

Into the Third Reich

Scouting for the best route for his motor pool through Nuremberg, Germany, 1st Battalion, 15th Regiment Transportation officer Lt. Read more

“Cooties”—The Fight against Lice-Borne Epidemic Typhus.

By Richard Danila

Infectious diseases have shaped history and often determined the fate of wars. In an article for infectious disease physicians, Drs. Read more

France’s Char B1 bis Battle Tank

With his Tiger tank, SS-Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann famously annihilated a British tank brigade at Villers-Bocage on June 13, 1944. Read more

General Dwight D. Eisenhower Shouldered the Burden of Command.

When the military might of the Allies began to move inexorably toward Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, told the troops that they were embarking on a “great crusade” to rid the world of the scourge of Nazi tyranny. Read more

Grant’s Ordeal at the Battle of Shiloh

It was raining heavily, a deluge of almost Biblical proportions that hammered down on the exhausted men of the Union’s Army of the Tennessee. Read more

Tarawa: ‘Marine Corps’ Toughest Battle

For a week before November 20, 1943, U.S. Navy and Seventh Air Force planes did their best to destroy the Japanese defenses on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tarawa. Read more

Castillon: Last Battle of the Hundred Years’ War

England’s long downward slide to defeat in the Hundred Years’ War began with the failed siege of Orleans in 1428. Read more

Ireland in World War II: The Swastika vs. The Shamrock

The south of Ireland, officially known as Eire and often referred to by many residing there as the “Free State,” declared its neutrality when World War II erupted suddenly in September 1939. Read more

The Tragic Story of Mordecai Booth and the Burning of the Washington Navy Yard.

News arrived in the capital city that the British army had defeated a hastily-gathered and rag-tag collection of American soldiers, sailors, militiamen, and government clerks in Maryland at Bladensburg. Read more

Joe Rosenthal: Flag-Raising Photographer

The “Raising of the Flag” photo taken by 33-year-old Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on the fifth day of the Iwo Jima battle provided the world with a much-needed uplifting symbol in February 1945. Read more

The Battle of Garfagnana: Italy’s ‘Battle of the Bulge’

There are important similarities between Hitler’s final great push into Belgium and Luxembourg and Mussolini’s drive south of Garfagnana. Read more

The Days of Shoddy: Worst Manufacturers of the Civil War

“For sugar the government often got sand; for coffee, rye; for leather, something no better than brown paper; for sound horses and mules, spavined beasts and dying donkeys; and for serviceable muskets and pistols, the experimental failures of sanguine inventors, or the refuse of shops and foreign armories.” Read more

U.S. Coast Guard Goes to War

Recently put ashore, three companies of U.S. Marines advanced stealthily along the Matanikau River on the northern coast of Guadalcanal on September 27, 1942. Read more

Canadian Valor at the Battle of Amiens

The drone of a Royal Air Force bomber could be heard overhead in the early morning of August 8, 1918, as it flew up and down the Allied line near Amiens, France. Read more

General Percy Hobart: Britain’s Genius Tanker

An army that will be poised for victory requires élan, military intellect, a penchant for tactical and strategic innovation, and the zeal to use the most qualified individuals for training and leadership. Read more

Soviet Memorabilia

In 1917, after almost three years of hard fighting in World War I, the Romanov dynasty came to an end with the abdication of Czar Nicolas II of Russia. Read more

Ronald Speirs: ‘Imperfect But Daring Leader’

Swirls of black smoke billowed high above the steeples and splintered roofs as Lieutenant Ronald Speirs surveyed the stucco exteriors of storefronts and dwellings pocked by the scars of urban battle. Read more

Battle of Gettysburg: No Picnic at Culp’s Hill

As they formed ranks on the Hanover Road one mile east of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, the men in the II Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia stared anxiously at the giant boulders and towering oak trees dotting the humpbacked prominence known as Culp’s Hill, three quarters of a mile southeast of town. Read more