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Siam Secrecy: The Thai Resistance in World War II
By John W. Osborn, Jr.Thailand was perhaps the least known, though surely more scenic and exotic, covert battleground of World War II. Read more
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Leningrad: A Survivor’s Story
By Bob KunzingerGeorgina’s mother sat next to me at her dining room table. She and her husband were veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and back in 1996 we all sat about the table on Victory Day and talked about the siege. Read more
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Tactical Thunder: The Ninth Air Force
By Sam McGowanAs the landing craft carrying the invading Allied ground forces of Operation Overlord motored toward the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944, they were protected and supported by the largest aerial armada the world has ever seen. Read more
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Seizure of the Surcouf
By Christopher MiskimonWhen built, the French Surcouf was the largest submarine in the world. She was named for Robert Surcouf, the famed French privateer who waged successful economic warfare against England during the Napoleonic era. Read more
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Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: Catching Japan Unawares
By John WalkerAt 11:02 am on August 9, 1945, an American warplane dropped an atomic device nicknamed “Fat Man” onto the city of Nagasaki, Japan. Read more
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Cunning Ambush at Sannah’s Post
By William WelshDuring the infamous Black Week of December 1899, the proud British Army suffered three consecutive bloody defeats in southern Africa. Read more
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Massacre on the Washita
By Arnold BlumbergThe conclusion of the Civil War saw the painfully reunited nation resume its westward surge. Complicating that surge was the Indian question: how best to remove the Native American peoples from the paths of white expansion. Read more
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Stalingrad: Apocalypse on the Volga
By John WalkerAfter Adolf Hitler’s audacious invasion of Russia finally ground to a halt in December 1941 on the forested outskirts of Moscow, the exhausted German Army stabilized its winter front in a line running roughly from Leningrad in the north to Rostov in the south. Read more
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The Miracle of Bletchley Park
By Hervie HauflerGreat Britain’s military intelligence leaders learned from their experience in World War I that the kinds of minds capable of breaking codes are a rare commodity and are often not likely to blossom in a military atmosphere. Read more
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Auchinleck of the Indian Army
By Jon DiamondMany students of World War II history know General Sir Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, who, after taking over for General Sir Archibald Wavell in late June 1941, oversaw the fluctuating fate of Britain’s Eighth Army while combating German General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps during Operations Crusader and Gazala. Read more
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Bridging the Rhine at Remagen: Infantryman Paul Priest Recalls the Historic Crossing
By George A. LarsonAs Allied troops advanced along a broad front toward Nazi Germany in the winter of 1945, the United States Army was eager to capture an intact bridge over the Rhine River to allow its troops and heavy equipment to advance rapidly into Germany. Read more
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Into The Dragon’s Jaw
By Joseph Frantiska Jr.Throughout the history of warfare, there have been targets that have been notably reluctant to fall. One such highly resistant target was the Thanh Hoa Railroad and Highway Bridge spanning the Song Ma River three miles northeast of Thanh Hoa, the capital of Annam Province in North Vietnam. Read more
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Protestant Heroes of 1622
By Louis CiotolaAs the year 1622 dawned over Germany, things appeared bleak for the refugee “Winter King” of Bohemia, Elector Palatine Frederick V. Read more
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K Rations Created the World’s Best Fed Army
By Richard BerantyK Rations remain one of the great icons of World War II. Soldiers either loved them or hated them. Read more
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Gallantry on the High Seas: Merchant Ship Sacrifices in the Atlantic
By Robert Barr SmithThroughout World War II, the British Admiralty’s deepest concern was the all-important shipping lanes that supplied their island fortress. Read more
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Combat Fatigue: How Stress in Battle was Felt (and Treated) in WWII
By Duane SchultzEugene Sledge knew a thing or two about combat fatigue. It was September 15, 1944, on a tiny spit of land called Peleliu: the Japanese opened up with heavy mortar fire just as the Marines moved off the beach and started inland. Read more
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Getting the Gliders Off the Ground
By Flint WhitlockTo bring soldiers swiftly and silently onto a battlefield, the U.S. Army decided to follow the German and British examples and build tactical gliders. Read more
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Capturing the Rock: Gibraltar 1704
By Arnold BlumbergAs Spanish king Charles II lay dying in Madrid in the autumn of 1700, worried diplomats in other European capitals brooded day and night over who would succeed the childless monarch. Read more
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The Dakota War of 1862: What Caused the Great Sioux Uprising
By Eric NiderostShortly after midnight on the morning of Monday, August 18, 1862, an uneasy group of Santee Sioux warriors arrived at the simple frame home of Taoyateduta, known to the whites as Little Crow. Read more
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Balkan Bedlam: Special Forces in WWII Albania
By John W. Osborn, Jr.When British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to organize guerrilla resistance against the Nazis, he famously ordered it to set Europe on fire. Read more
