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Winter Storm on Stones River
By Robert L. DurhamOne of the most hard-fighting divisions in the Army of the Cumberland, the one led by Maj. Read more
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The USCGC Taney: Pearl Harbor and Beyond
by Paul B. CoraBuilt in the mid-1930s as one of the famed Treasury class of large U.S. Coast Guard cutters, USCGC Taney had a distinguished career spanning five decades of continuous service. Read more
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Courageous Count Jean Rapp & The Napoleonic Wars
by Blaine TaylorHad he—and not Emmanuel, the Marquis of Grouchy—been named a Marshal of France on April 1, 1815, General Count Jean Rapp might have helped the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte win the Battle of Waterloo. Read more
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Some sixty years later, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler’s death remains shrouded in mystery.
By Charles WhitingOn Monday, May 21, 1945, men of the British 51st Highland Division were busy screening Germans and foreign nationals, mainly displaced persons attempting to go west over a small bridge near newly conquered Bremervoerde, Germany. Read more
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Revolutionary War Weapons: The American Long Rifle
By David Alan JohnsonBy the mid-1700’s, the American long rifle had acquired an almost supernatural reputation. To the British troops who were unfortunate enough to come up against it in combat during the Revolutionary War, the rifle was more an affliction than a weapon. Read more
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Red Army Airborne Assault
By Victor KamenirOperation Typhoon, Germany’s final effort to capture Moscow, ground to a halt within sight of the Soviet capital as the temperatures hovered between -30ºF and -40ºF in early December 1941. Read more
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On They Came Like an Angry Flood: The Battle of Chickamauga
By Arnold BlumbergIt had been a little over six months since Major General William S. Rosecrans and his Army of the Cumberland had checked the Confederates at the Battle of Stones River (December 31,1862–January 2,1863). Read more
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The Fieseler Storch Fi 156
by Blaine TaylorOn March 12, 1939, Heroes’ Memorial Day (or Veterans Day) in the Nazi Third Reich, the thousands of onlookers at the giant annual parade in Berlin were treated to an unusual sight as a small monoplane landed on the Unter den Linden between Hermann Göring’s State Opera House and the Neue Wache (New Guardshouse). Read more
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The Battle of Oriskany: Into the Trap
By Donald Roberts IIThe year 1776 ended on a high note for Washington’s Continental Army despite its earlier devastating defeats on Long Island and Manhattan. Read more
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German Intelligence Chief Wilhelm Franz Canaris
by David Alan JohnsonIn most popular spy thrillers, secret agents are tall, handsome, virile, and irresistible to women. Whether their name is Dirk Pitt, Jack Ryan, or James Bond, all are hard-drinking, well-tailored ladies’ men. Read more
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The Battle-Ax
By William McPeakThe shafted ax has been around since 6000 bc, in both peaceful and warlike uses. The so-called battle-ax cultures (3200 to 1800 bc) extended over much of northern Europe from the late Stone Age through the early Bronze Age. Read more
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Nine Military History Book Reviews for Spring 2026
By Kevin Seabrooke Full ReviewsHammer of the Gods: King Olaf’s Viking Conquest (Don Hollway, Osprey Publishing, New York, NY, 400 pp., Read more
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A Bedford Boy at Omaha Beach
By John WukovitsTwenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Teass walked into the Western Union office in the small town of Bedford, Virginia, early on the morning of July 17, 1944, fully expecting a normal day as the teletype operator. Read more
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The Survivor of the Sinking of U-451
By Jack AdamsonOberleutnant zur See Walter Köhler floated alone in the freezing Atlantic in the predawn hours of December 21, 1941. Read more
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Mystery at the Battle of Ramree Island
By Chuck LyonsThe nights were “the most horrible ever experienced,” Bruce S. Wright, a Royal Canadian Lieutenant Commander later wrote about his time in Burma in February 1945. Read more
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9 World War II Book Reviews for Spring 2026
By Kevin Seabrooke Full ReviewsThe Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933–1945 (Frank McDonough, Apollo/Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, NY, 416pp., Jan. 27, 2026, $45 HC)
Resisting Nazism: True Stories of Resistance to the World’s Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present (Luke Berryman, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, NY, 296 pp., Read more
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Philip Neame
By Bradley P. TolppanenDuring the Second World War the Western Desert campaign was a graveyard for the reputations of British generals—all at the hands of the Desert Fox, Gen. Read more
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Don Hollway’s ‘Hammer of the Gods’
By Kevin SeabrookeViking literature has been popular since the 13th century and is more so than ever in the 21st, with television shows such as Vikings, Vikings: Valhalla, The Northman and The Last Kingdom (based on Bernard Cornwell’s books)—as well as the Viking-adjacent Game of Thrones (based on George R. Read more
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Jamie Holmes’s ‘The Free and the Dead’
By Kevin SeabrookeFollowing the end of the Revolutionary War, parts of Florida reverted to Spain, becoming a continuing source of conflict boundaries, the presence of formerly enslaved people and Native Americans from the region attacking the United States. Read more
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Rob Zettel’s ‘American MiG Pilot’
By Kevin SeabrookeRetired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Rob Zettel, veteran who flew MiG-21 and MiG-23 fighters in the mid-1980s, shares an inside view of the U.S. Read more
