War So Terrible: The Battle of Fredericksburg
By Arnold BlumbergWord spread like wildfire through the camps of the Army of the Potomac during the second week of November 1862: “Little Mac” was out, “Old Burn” was in. Read more
Operation Nordwind: The Last Offensive
By David H. LippmanSnow and biting cold covered American foxholes in the Vosges and the Alsace plain as GI wristwatches ticked down the last hours of December 31, 1944, awaiting the German attack. Read more
Marine Lieutenant George Cannon
By Edward F. MurphyMarine Lieutenant George Cannon flinched instinctively as a barrage of shells erupted short of the sandy beach with a violent roar, sending columns of water and sand soaring into the air. Read more
Luxembourg’s Hoffman Museum
By Raymond E. Bell, Jr.You won’t find the familiar little triangular signs, “Warnung Minen!” hanging on barbed wire today in Western Europe, with one exception. Read more
The Road to War
By John WukovitsAdmiral William F. Halsey had never seen such destruction. Making matters worse, the harm had been inflicted on his beloved Navy inside one of its strongholds—the Pacific bastion of Pearl Harbor. Read more
Himmler’s Capture
During the last days of the Third Reich and the immediate aftermath of World War II in Europe, the Allied hunt for the high-ranking Nazis closest to the Führer was vigorous. Read more
Firing on Fort Sumter: the Start of Civil War
By Al HemingwayShortly after midnight on the morning of April 12, 1861, four men in a rowboat made their way across the pitch-black harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, toward an unfinished and architecturally insignificant masonry fort three miles out from the city where the harbor meets the Atlantic Ocean. Read more
Night Battle: The Barroom Brawl Off Guadalcanal
By David Alan JohnsonNovember 13, 1942, was a Friday, which sailors aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco noted with anxiety. Read more
Russian Commanders: Marshal Semyon M. Budenny
By Blaine TaylorAt 8 am on the cold, blustery morning of November 7, 1941, the 24th anniversary of the Russian Communist Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, a dashing lone horseman galloped out of the Spassky Gate of the Kremlin onto snow-covered Red Square. Read more
A Memorable Marine Mascot
By Eric NiderostSoochow was a mongrel dog with a remarkable gift for self-preservation. A homeless stray, he attached himself to some U.S. Read more
Garand’s Wonder Weapon
By Michael D. HullA variety of outstanding weapons and pieces of equipment affected the course of World War II for both the Allies and the Axis powers. Read more
Secret Agent Man: The Story of Eddie Chapman
By Peter KrossNations have often pressed unsavory characters and criminals into service during wartime, rationalizing that such action is in the best interest of the country during extraordinary times. Read more
Rev. Robert J. Miller’s ‘Faith of the Fathers’
By Kevin SeabrookeThose who served the Protestant spiritual needs of the fighting men of the Civil War, in both official unofficial capacites, faced numerous barriers, shortages and hardships—though they did receive a captain’s salary and horse, they were not identified as such by the government, nor were they provided with uniforms, rations or forage for the horse. Read more
Gerri Willis’ ‘Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster’
By Kevin SeabrookeElizabeth Van Lew was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1818, to parents from Philadelphia and Long Island. Raised in a mansion in the city, she finished her education in Philadelphia. Read more
Suzanne Cope’s ‘Women of War’
By Kevin SeabrookeThe author brings to life the efforts of four women in different parts of Italy, who each in their own way found it within themselves to resist both Italian fascists and Nazi invaders. Read more
William H. Chickering’s ‘A War of Their Own’
By Kevin SeabrookeDetails the efforts of the resistance movement of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO), whose objective was autonomy for various indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in South Vietnam, including the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, the Chams in Central Vietnam, and the Khmer Krom in Southern Vietnam. Read more
Martin Dugard’s ‘Taking Midway’
By Kevin SeabrookeIn a basement in Honolulu, Hawaii, a team of unconventional military cryptographers known as Station Hypo are led by Lt.-Com. Read more
Stephen R. Platt’s ‘The Raider’
By Kevin SeabrookeEvans Fordyce Carlson was a complex man with a heavily decorated and varied military career who is credited by many for developing the tactics and culture of what would become the special forces operations. Read more
Montel Williams’ ‘The Sailing of the Intrepid’
By Kevin SeabrookeNearly 40 years before she was towed to New York City’s Pier 86 to become a permanent part of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June 1982, the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) was launched from the shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. Read more
Brennan S. Deveraux’s ‘Exterminating ISIS’
By Kevin Seabrooke“In 2016, I was responsible for the deaths of over 600 people. But they deserved to die—all of them. Read more
