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Letters from Oblivion: Auschwitz and Buchenwald
By Katrina ShawverHenry Zguda, a Polish Catholic, spent three and a half years interned at Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a political prisoner. Read more
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Hitler’s Experience in the Trenches of the Great War
By Kirk A. FreemanIn the months before the outbreak of World War I, 25-year-old Adolf Hitler was living the starving artist’s life in the Bavarian city of Munich, selling his paintings door-to-door and in the city’s numerous beer halls. Read more
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Codebreaking Sergeant Richard
By Patrick J. ChaissonWewak Convoy 21 was being annihilated, and the Japanese Army could do nothing to stop it.
The first vessel to die was Yakumo Maru. Read more
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Ambush at Oriskany
By Eric NiderostThe young Oneida warrior paused, tensing as he spotted some activity in the forest just in front of him. Read more
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First Sustained Nuclear Reaction
By Eric NiderostEnrico Fermi’s face was a study in concentration as his fingers deftly moved across the well-worn surface of his slide rule. Read more
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Roman Disaster at Carrhae
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckGigantic clouds of dust rose from the sun-baked plain. The ground shook under the hoofs of thousands of cavalry. Read more
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Conrad Veidt Lived Out His Anti-Nazi Commitment
The 1942 film Casablanca remains one of the most popular Hollywood creations of all time, immortalizing the characters played by Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine) and Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund). Read more
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The Death of Prince William of Orange
By William E. WelchOn Sunday, March 18, 1582, 37-year-old Dutch Stadholder Prince William of Orange attended a festive luncheon in his palace in Antwerp to celebrate the birthday of major ally French Duke Francis of Anjou, who had arrived in the Low Countries the previous month to support the Dutch in their rebellion against the Spanish crown. Read more
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Russia’s Conquest of Siberia
By Victor KamenirRussian historical documents dating back to 1095 speak of an unknown people living beyond the Ural Mountains in Siberia who spoke an incomprehensible language and traded furs for iron knives and axes. Read more
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Last Lunge in the East
By Victor KamenirSoviet machine-gunner Mykhailo Petrik and his platoon comrades lay in their makeshift bunker on the open steppe land 30 miles northwest of Belgorod awaiting the enemy’s advance on the first day of the titanic clash at Kursk. Read more
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Daring Strike on Havana
By Mike PhiferThe guns of the British warships assaulting the Cuban shoreline just east of Havana on the morning of June 7, 1762, roared to life in a flash of orange flames and grey smoke. Read more
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My War On Two Fronts
By J. (Joseph) Conklin Lanier, IIHow I, then a teenager of African descent, found myself thousands of miles away from my placid, rural Mississippi home and on a dangerous volcanic island known as Iwo Jima in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where tens of thousands of men met violent deaths, is a journey at which I still marvel today, some 65 years later. Read more
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Arnold’s Flawed Invasion of Quebec
By Eric NiderostOn November 9, 1775, a British resident of Quebec wrote a letter back home, a missive that he knew might not even reach England, because the Canadian fortress city would soon be under a state of siege. Read more
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For All The Wrong Reasons
By Edward G. MillerHürtgen Forest. Chilling rain, freezing fog, mud, impenetrable forest. Unremitting misery for GIs and Landsers alike. War correspondent Ernest Hemingway famously called it “Passchendaele with tree bursts.” Read more
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Was There Justice at Nuremberg?
By Blaine TaylorAfter Imperial Germany lost the Great War (1914-1918), the Treaty of Versailles punished her severely in terms of ruinous restitution payments to the victors, economic sanctions, the loss of territory and colonies, the forced abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the heavy restrictions imposed on her armed forces. Read more
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The Fight for Weiler
By Allyn VannoyIN a house in a small, nameless Belgian village, 26-year-old Sergeant Tom Myers, a newly assigned member of the 5th Armored Division, was upstairs changing his filthy uniform for a fresh one. Read more
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Faces of World War I
By David DeJongeNovember 11, 2008, marked the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. Some 4,734,991 American soldiers served in the conflict, and 116,516 Americans lost their lives during the nation’s two-year participation in the war—a casualty rate far surpassing the deaths incurred in the combined wars of Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Read more
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War on the West Coast
By Glenn BarnettThroughout World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy dreamed of taking the war to the West Coast of the United States. Read more
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Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I
By William E. WelshVenetian military engineer Gabriel Tandini listened intently in the semi-darkness of the Knights Hospitaller counter-tunnels beneath the walls of Rhodes for sound of Turkish sappers trying to dig under the city’s walls. Read more
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Napoleon’s Costly Victory at Eylau
By Victor KamenirAfter decisively crushing Austrian and Russian armies in the 1805 campaign, French Emperor Napoleon became the undisputed master of Central Europe. Read more
