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Russia’s Time of Troubles
The Varangians founded a number of fortified towns in Slavic Russia in the 9th century that would become seats of Eastern Christian principalities. Read more
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The Story of America’s Lost Battalion in World War I Is a Saga of Citizen Soldiers Who Endured a Hellish Maelstrom of Combat
By Christopher MiskimonLines of drab-uniformed soldiers emerged from their night march and moved down a forested road into open country on September 26, 1918. Read more
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Slogging into the Reich
By Christopher MiskimonLieutenant William Paul Chapman’s fellow soldiers were tank hunting on the afternoon of August 11, 1944. The Battle of Mortain was raging around them, a counterattack by a German armored spearhead against the growing and inexorable advance of the Allied armies out of the Normandy beachhead. Read more
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The Bold British Stroke at Taranto Preceded the Royal Navy Victory at Cape Matapan
The great British Royal Navy victory at Cape Matapan sealed the fate of the Italian Regia Marina, rendering Mussolini’s fleet virtually impotent after the spring of 1941. Read more
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Dutch Debacle
By John W. Osborn, Jr.
When world war engulfed Europe for the second time in a generation, the Netherlands placed its faith in the diplomatic delusion that it could remain neutral like it had during World War I. Read more
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Assault Gun Tanker
By Kevin M. HymelThe German push west came to a violent end.
On December 19, 1944, the Panther and King Tiger tanks of SS Lt. Read more
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Defusing World War II’s dangerous legacy.
By Flint WhitlockFor the most part, World War II left the U.S. and Canadian homelands physically untouched. There were a few incidents of sabotage and a few small-scale attacks, such as a Japanese submarine’s shelling of an oil refinery in southern California and balloon bombs launched from Japan that floated over the Pacific and set fires in the western United States and Canada. Read more
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Bloody Clash on the Tiber
By Tim MillerOn October 28, ad 312, a Roman emperor was drowning. The sight must have amazed his soldiers. All summer Rome had been filled with rumors of the western emperor, Constantine, and the ease with which he and his army had crossed the Alps and, once on Italian soil, strung together a handful of victories in the north. Read more
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Cannon Thunder at the Battle of Valmy
By David A. NorrisWind lifted away the fog sheltering the French lines. Atop a low ridge where the French army was deployed, a lone windmill provided a vivid range marker for 58 Prussian cannons on the neighboring hills. Read more
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Prisoner of the Gestapo: Freed by Words
By Susan ZimmermanWith war comes untold stories of unbroken spirits. These are universal stories without bounds and sides, some of which remain buried deep in psyches. Read more
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WWII’s Tragic Aviation Accidents
By Mason WebbIt was Christmas Day, 1944. A U.S. Navy C-47 Skytrain with five men aboard was en route from Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kansas, to Columbus, Ohio. Read more
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Rebel Blunder at the Battle of Bristoe Station
By David A. NorrisIt took only moments for a golden opportunity to turn into a trap. Several days of pursuit in October 1863 through northern Virginia at last brought Lt. Read more
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Warfare’s Unsung Pigeon
By G. Paul GarsonBattlefield communications are often a matter of life and death to individual soldiers and serve to determine not only the outcome of battles but entire wars. Read more
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Ordeal at Monte Cassino
By Jon DiamondLt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth Army, comprising the U.S. VI and British X Corps, headed north from the Salerno battlefield in September 1943, German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, commander of Army Group C in southern Italy, implemented new defensive tactics and fortifications. Read more
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Corregidor: Gibraltar of the East
By Eric NiderostWhen Marine Private Donald Versaw arrived on the fortress island of Corregidor in the Philippines on December 28, 1941, three weeks after Pearl Harbor, he was impressed by how normal everything looked. Read more
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The Wereth 11 Massacre During the Battle of the Bulge
By Stephen D. LutzIn the winter of 1944-1945, within Belgium’s Ardennes Forest, better known as the launching pad of the Battle of the Bulge, two war crimes were committed. Read more
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WWII’s Forgotten “Missing”
By Flint Whitlock, Editor WWII QuarterlyRecently, I saw an article about American MIAs—those service members who went “missing in action” during World War II—and, frankly, was taken aback. Read more
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The Bitter Hurtgen Forest Battle
By Michael Haskew, Editor
For three months during the autumn and winter of 1944, the U.S. First Army was locked in a death grip with the tenacious German defenders of the Hurtgen Forest, an area of 54 square miles east of the Belgian frontier. Read more
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Frederick the Great at Torgau: “A Picture of Hell”
By Eric Niderost
King Frederick II of Prussia was busy writing dispatches, his face a study of grim determination as he scribbled out the words by the light of a guttering candle. Read more
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Celebrating U.S. Army History
By Mason B. Webb
In the heart of Pennsylvania, not far from the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg, stands the U.S. Read more
