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Showdown In The Aleutians
By Phil ZimmerWith a sharp clatter of machine guns, the Japanese marines announced their presence by spraying bullets into the isolated U.S. Read more
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A Flash of Sabers
By Alexander ZakrzewskiOn the foggy morning of November 30, 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, watched impatiently as his Grande Armée lumbered up the rocky slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains of central Spain. Read more
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James Longstreet’s Daring Advance
By Arnold BlumbergThe column of Confederates marched east as quietly as possible along the bed of an unfinished railroad that knifed through the Wilderness south of the Rapidan River shortly before midday on May 6, 1864. Read more
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Bloody Clash On The Lomba
By William StroockWith its pro-Western ally in southern Angola facing destruction by an all-out communist offensive in 1987, Apartheid South African President P.W. Read more
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Drive to Messina
By Phil ZimmerSergeant Alfred Johnson peered from behind a boulder on a rock-strewn hillside at Piano Lupo about six miles inland from the southern coast of Sicily. Read more
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Russia’s Four Immortal Generals
By Victor KamenirIn 1242, Russian Prince Alexander Nevsky faced the armored might of the Teutonic knights. Generals Alexander Suvorov and Peter Kotlyarevski were Napoleon’s contemporaries, while General Mikhail Skobelev exemplified the panache of the Victorian Era. Read more
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The 45th Infantry Division’s Desperate Defense at Anzio
By Christopher MiskimonThe sunrise on February 16, 1944, dawned foggy over the Via Anziate—the only highway between Anzio and Rome. Read more
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Battle of Kadesh: Clash of the Chariot Armies
By Erich B. AndersonIn the cold, early morning of a day in late May 1274 bc, the Egyptian troops of the Re corps were abruptly awoken with shouts, kicks, or nudges. Read more
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Death of Himmler’s Henchman
By Richard RuleIn a desperate bid to avoid another war in Europe, both Britain and France signed the notorious Munich Agreement in 1938, which annexed the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis. Read more
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Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs from the Second World War
By Christopher MiskimonA trio of Soviet T-26 light tanks sit isolated in a field, green grass reaching the tops of their tracks. Read more
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The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion: Fighting on Both Fronts
By Christopher MiskimonThe men of the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion fought two opponents during World War II. From the moment they began their training in 1942, the African American soldiers assigned to the unit faced the prejudice endemic in American society of the time, and by extension the United States Army. Read more
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Terrible Slaughter at Waterloo
By David A. NorrisWith two hours of daylight left, French Emperor Napoleon I saw his chance to make the Battle of Waterloo his greatest victory. Read more
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Desperate Days On Hill 314
By Alan DavidgeWhen the 230th Field Artillery Battalion was attached to the 30th Infantry (“Old Hickory”) Division in Mortain, France, on August 6, 1944, many of its men had already received their baptism of fire in Normandy. Read more
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Letters From The Eastern Front
By Horst Fuchs RichardsonBackstory: My father, Karl Fuchs, was a German soldier in World War II who fought and died on the Eastern Front. Read more
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On the trail of the Amber Room
Nearly 20 years ago, I met a fellow in Germany (we’ll call him “Hans”) who was on his life’s quest to find one of mankind’s greatest treasures and solve one of WWII’s greatest mysteries—the fabulous Amber Room. Read more
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Soldiers of God
By John WalkerIn November 1177, Saladin launched his first significant military campaign against a crusader state. With 26,000 men, siege engines, a huge baggage train, and his own personal force of elite Mamluk bodyguards, Saladin marched his Ayyubid army across the Sinai Desert from Egypt into southern Palestine. Read more
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Incomparable Bravery
By Alexander ZakrzewskiIn the early evening of September 12, 1683, the citizens of Vienna watched from the ramparts of their beleaguered city as 3,500 winged horsemen poured down the slopes of the Kahlenberg Heights and into the heart of the besieging Turkish army. Read more
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Liberating Paris
By Jean René Champion (with Marc and David Champion)
Jean René Champion (or René, as he preferred to be called) was born in 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a commune on the west side of Paris. Read more
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Guadalcanal: Ending with a Whimper
By John J. DomagalskiAdmiral Ernest J. King wanted the battle for Guadalcanal to be over. There were additional objectives for the United States to pursue in the South Pacific and by the middle of January 1943 he was becoming impatient. Read more
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Bloody Showdown at Stanley
By Christopher MiskimonA rocky, jumbled mass of boulders known as Mount Harriet just west of the city of Stanley in the Falkland Islands had no claim to fame before the night of June 11-12, 1982, but it achieved renown after a harrowing engagement that occurred between British and Argentine forces that night. Read more
