Military History
Augustus found Rome brick and left it marble” is an expression pegged to the first of the Roman emperors. And indeed Rome flourished around the time of Christ, erecting magnificent arches and columns, palaces and public buildings, temples and baths, coliseums and aqueducts. Read more
Military History
Dear Editor,
It is unfortunate James K. Swisher relied so heavily on unreliable secondary material on Patrick Ferguson. As a Scottish historian and author of a forthcoming book on Patrick Ferguson, I have worked on 21 years’ worth of his personal letters and wish to make some corrections. Read more
Military History
Days before the impending Battle of Trafalgar, a sailor on Horatio Nelson’s flagship Victory was so busy ensuring that each man’s letters home were secured for dispatch on a vessel bound for England that he forgot until after the ship had sailed that he hadn’t included his own. Read more
Military History
Dear Editor:
I really enjoyed Mike Markowitz’s article on the development of war machines of the Ancient Greeks (Weapons, February 2001). Read more
Military History
The 1942-43 struggle for Guadalcanal Island has, to my mind, an odd place in American memory. Americans are familiar with it, know it as a victory, but do not accord it the same honor as the Battle of Midway, or of Tarawa or Iwo Jima. Read more
Military History
According to its publisher, the “Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Read more
Military History
Dear Editor,
Love your magazine and never miss an issue, especially articles about paratrooper exploits. I must, however, correct a Communique (letter) in your February 2001 issue where a C.F. Read more
Military History
In 480-479 bc, the combined city-states of Greece repelled a gigantic invasion by the massive Persian Empire, bent on bringing the Greeks to heel. Read more
Military History
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
Military History
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
Military History
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
Military History
In the morning hours of July 8, 1520 Hernando Cortés, with the remnants of his army of Spanish adventurers and Indian allies, neared the crest of mountains overlooking the plain of Otumba (the Spanish corruption of the Nahuatl name of Otompan), an Indian city dominating the valley along Cortés’s line of march. Read more
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The Russian Army of World War I is comparatively unknown in the West when compared with the other major combatants of that conflict. Read more
Military History
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
Military History
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
Military History
