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The Pacific War: Bull Halsey & Raymond Spruance
By Michael HaskewOn the eve of the turning point of World War II in the South Pacific, the U.S. Navy’s most experienced aircraft carrier commander, Admiral William F. Read more
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Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding & Hermann Goering
by Michael HaskewBy the summer of 1940, Hitler’s Nazi war machine had advanced from victory to victory, crushing Poland, overrunning France and the Low Countries, and ejecting Allied forces from the continent of Europe at Dunkirk. Read more
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The Irish Rifles At the Battle of Chancellorsville
By Kevin M. O’BeirneThe city of New York provided more regiments than did many states during the Civil War, and the deeds of several of its regiments, such as the 9th New York “Hawkins’s Zouaves,” 39th New York “Garibaldi Guard,” and 42nd New York “Tammany Regiment” are well known. Read more
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Viking Father & Son: Erik the Red & Leif Eriksson
by Michael HaskewWhile they are primarily remembered as fierce warriors, who raided far and wide from their homes in Scandinavia, the Vikings were also some of the earliest European explorers who ventured across miles of trackless ocean to previously unknown corners of the world. Read more
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France & World War I’s Triple Entente
by Michael HaskewThe French nation was stunned by the catastrophic defeat its army suffered at the hands of a Prussian-led German coalition in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Read more
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The Battle of Waynesboro: Jubal Early’s Last Stand
By Cowan BrewThe unrelentingly harsh winter of 1864-1865 gave no respite to Virginia’s war-torn Shenandoah Valley. Heavy snows and frigid temperatures made travel difficult, and the two opposing armies found themselves literally frozen into place, 90 miles apart and in no particular hurry to get at each other again before the weather broke. Read more
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Charlemagne’s Shame: The Battle of Roncesvalles
by William E. WelshLost to history is what really occurred at the Battle of Roncesvalles in 778 when Christian Basques, thirsting for the loot in the Frankish baggage train, attacked the rearguard as it withdrew following Charlemagne’s short invasion of northern Iberia. Read more
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Norse Mythology & Viking Gods
by Michael HaskewThe warlike pagan Vikings were introduced to Christianity on many occasions as they raided and settled Western Europe during an era that spanned more than 300 years. Read more
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Field Marshals Erwin Rommel & Gerd von Rundstedt
by Michael HaskewThe Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe was inevitable as the tide of World War II turned against Germany. Read more
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Austria-Hungary and the Triple Alliance
by Michael HaskewThe emergence of Germany as the dominant power in Central Europe in the 1870s and the unification of Italy in the mid-19th century despite Austrian efforts to prevent it combined to quell the immediate territorial aspirations of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary on the Italian peninsula and in the Balkans. Read more
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Valkyria Duel
By Joseph LusterValkyria Chronicles is an interesting franchise.
It’s one of those series one would assume is more popular than it really is simply due to the overwhelming fan fervor, and their vocal disappointment at the fact that it didn’t catch on as blazing hot as it could have in North America. Read more
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Walking in the Footsteps of Heroes
By Flint WhitlockI wrote previously about my guided three D-Day tours in the summer of 2014. I repeated the tour-guiding experience in May and June this year for the Minnesota World War II History Roundtable during a tour of Fifth Army battlefields in Italy. Read more
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The Kingdom of Italy & the Triple Entente
by Michael HaskewWhen the Triple Alliance was concluded between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the spring of 1882, Italy was, like Germany, a young nation recently unified after years of military conflicts and occupation by various European powers. Read more
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Eisenhower and MacArthur: an In-Depth Comparison
by Michael HaskewTwo of America’s most famous senior commanders to emerge from World War II were Eisenhower and MacArthur. These officers were largely responsible for command decisions that resulted in Allied victories in the South Pacific and in Europe. Read more
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Rollo the Viking, First Ruler of Normandy
by Michael HaskewRoving bands of Viking seafarers raided extensively in Western Europe from the Eighth to the 11th centuries, looting and sacking settlements and population centers including London, Paris, and Hamburg. Read more
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Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev: The Race to Berlin
by Michael HaskewOn orders from Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, the offensive that resulted in the capture of the Nazi capital of Berlin in April 1945, developed into a race between the army groups of two Soviet commanders, Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Ivan Konev. Read more
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The Spear, Axe & Sword: Viking Weapons
by Michael HaskewThe fearsome Vikings who pillaged and colonized throughout Western Europe and much of the known world from the Eighth to the 11th centuries were armed with weaponry that served them well in combat. Read more
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Russia in WWI’s Triple Entente
by Michael HaskewBy the time Imperial Russia and Great Britain concluded the Anglo-Russian Convention on August 31, 1907, effectively establishing the alliance known as the Triple Entente, the Russian Empire was in the midst of decades of upheaval. Read more
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Recollections of The Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House
By William E. WelshThe recollections of Virginia-born John O. Casler of the famed Confederate Stonewall Brigade offer considerable insight into the nature of the fighting, as well as the thoughts and actions of the enlisted men, at Spotsylvania Court House in mid-May 1864. Read more
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Blood on the Snow: The Battle of Nashville
By John WalkerFor the black-skinned, blue-clad soldiers deployed on the extreme left flank of the Union Army outside Nashville, Tennessee, the order to advance announced at dawn on December 15, 1864, was a long time coming. Read more
