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Determined to defend the Mohawk Valley, patriots under General Nicholas Herkimer fight back at Indians and Tories ambushing them in the wilderness. The wounded Herkimer commanded from under a tree as the battle raged hour after hour.

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The Battle of Oriskany: Into the Trap

By Donald Roberts II

The year 1776 ended on a high note for Washington’s Continental Army despite its earlier devastating defeats on Long Island and Manhattan. Read more

Wehrmacht infantrymen march through a Belgian town to occupy territory overrun by armored divisions.

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German Intelligence Chief Wilhelm Franz Canaris

by David Alan Johnson

In 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 McPeak

The 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

The Battle of Svolder by Norwegian artist Nils Bergslien (1853–1928) depicts a small ship of Jomsvikings, a legendary order of Viking mercenaries attacking the carrying King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway around 1000 in the Baltic Sea. Legend has it that Olaf jumped into the sea rather than be captured.

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Nine Military History Book Reviews for Spring 2026

By Kevin Seabrooke Full Reviews

Hammer of the Gods: King Olaf’s Viking Conquest (Don Hollway, Osprey Publishing, New York, NY, 400 pp., Read more

Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division in a landing craft heading for Omaha Beach in the first wave of the D-Day assault on Normandy.

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A Bedford Boy at Omaha Beach

By John Wukovits

Twenty-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

The German submarine, U-451, with its flying fish mascot visible on the conning tower in this undated photo.

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The Survivor of the Sinking of U-451

By Jack Adamson

Oberleutnant 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 Lyons

The 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 Reviews

The 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. Tolppanen

During 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 Seabrooke

Viking 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 Seabrooke

Following 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 Seabrooke

Retired 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

Capturing the raw emotion and brutality of war, this iconic image of Paratrooper Wayne T. Winters from the 173rd Airborne Brigade calling for a medic on Hill 882 southwest of Dak To, Vietnam, was taken by Catherine Leroy, a French photojournalist embedded with the Sky Soldiers.

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Wil Haygood’s ‘The War Within a War’

By Kevin Seabrooke

Haygood’s vivid, engaging prose brings to life the experiences of those he knew growing up in Columbus, Ohio, who served in Vietnam and the struggle of those who returned. Read more

President John F. Kennedy and Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt at a White House meeting in 1961.

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Jack Cheevers’s ‘Kennedy’s Coup’

By Kevin Seabrooke

Author of the award-winning Act of War—detailing the 1968 capture of the spy ship USS Pueblo by North Korean gunboats—comes a new look at one of America’s most serious foreign policy blunders. Read more

Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, was part of the provost marshal’s chain of responsibility. It is shown following its liberation by Union troops in April 1865.

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W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s ‘A Fate Worse than Hell’

By Kevin Seabrooke

In January 1864, with the Union’s Army of the Potomac in winter quarters about 80 miles north the Confederates decided to move many of the Union prisoners of war out of Richmond, Virginia. Read more

Thick black smoke seen in the distance beyond a burned-out Iraqi tank streams skyward after Iraqi forces withdrawing from Kuwait set fire to the Arab emirate’s oil fields.

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Trey Morriss’ ‘DOOM 34’

By Kevin Seabrooke

Before the stealth bombers could fly from Middle America to the Middle East and back, there was the secret mission code-named “Senior Surprise”—also nicknamed “Secret Squirrel” after the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character. Read more

Polish troops engage in field exercises in April 1939, just five months before the Nazi invasion of their country and the outbreak of World War II. Some Poles initially thought the Soviet Army was there to help them.

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David H. Lippman’s’ ‘World War II Day by Day’

By Kevin Seabrooke

The second installment of the author’s day-by-day history of World War II (e-book World War II Plus 75—The Road to War: A Day-by-Day History) this volume covers the six days of September 1, 1939, to September 6, 1939. Read more

Known as the "Stuka," a contraction of Sturzkampfflugzeug, the German word for dive bomber, the Junkers Ju-87 saw its first action in 1937 as part of Germany’s Condor Legion supporting Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Spain served as a proving ground for the precision strike tactics that would later be used so devastatingly in World War II as part of the Blitzkrieg.

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Major Christopher G. Marquis’ ‘U.S. Mercenaries and the Condor Legion’

By Kevin Seabrooke

The Spanish Civil War served as a proving ground for airpower’s importance as an independent force. Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces overthrew the Republican (Loyalist) Government supported heavily by the Condor Legion of planes and pilots sent by Nazi Germany. Read more

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Military Logistics Simulator

By Joseph Luster

There are countless “[X] Simulator” games on Steam and other platforms, from Goat Simulator to Supermarket Simulator, PowerWash Simulator and beyond. Read more

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The Crime At Pickett’s Mill

By Roy Morris, Jr.

Peering through the thick underbrush west of Little Pumpkin Vine Creek, 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, on the afternoon of May 27, 1864, Ambrose Bierce had a bad feeling. Read more

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