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Game Reviews: Bugs vs. Tanks!
By Joseph LusterIt’s not often you get a chance to play a World War II-related game on Nintendo’s portable 3DS platform. Read more
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German Zeppelins: Terrorizing The British And RAF During WW1
By Eric NiderostLieutenant William Leefe Robinson was not a happy man, and his sour mood was made worse by the weather. Read more
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The Battle of Gisors: Richard the Lionheart Chases His Prey
by William E. WelshKing Richard I of England, known as “The Lionheart,” was imprisoned in spring 1193 in Germany on his return from the Third Crusade by Duke Leopold V of Austria for alleged crimes and insults that occurred when they were participating together in the crusade. Read more
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King Alfred the Great: Smiting the Pagans at the Battle of Edington
by William E. WelshThe winter of 876-877 was a dreadful one for the West Saxons. The Viking Great Army, which was reinforced annually in the summer or fall, ravaged nearly all of England. Read more
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Teutonic Knights Under Ulrich Fight The Strategic Battle of Tannenberg
By Michael D. GreaneyOn the morning of July 15, 1410 two heralds approached the enormous host of Poles, Bohemians, Hungarians, Czechs, Cossacks, Tartars, Livonians—any and all who felt they had a grudge against the opposing force of Teutonic Knights and their allies, also gathered from all over Europe. Read more
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General Washington: Keeping the Continental Army Intact At Morristown
By David MichlovitzDespite never having gained the mythological fame of Valley Forge, the encampment of the Continental Army at Morristown, New Jersey, over the winter of 1779-80 was a horrendous trial, worse for the men than that at the Pennsylvania hollow, and dire for the revolutionary cause. Read more
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Joseph Plumb Martin: Revolutionary War Soldier In The Continental Army
by David MichlovitzMuch has been written about the great figures of the American Revolution, and many notable personalities of the era have left extensive writings recording their respective roles. Read more
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Douglas MacArthur Masterminds The Korean War’s Inchon Invasion
By Blaine TaylorLate in the evening of June 25, 1950 U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was at his Maryland farmhouse reading when a call arrived to inform him of a serious situation in the Far East. Read more
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Great Britain & WWI’s Triple Entente
by Michael HaskewThe old proverb that states, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” gained significant meaning for the government and people of Great Britain at the turn of the 20th century. Read more
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Who Were the Vikings?
by Michael HaskewThe word “Viking” conjures up images of fierce, seafaring warriors, armed to the teeth and wearing horned helmets, descending upon defenseless villages in Western Europe and the British Isles to rape, murder, and pillage. Read more
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Patton and Montgomery: Fighting the Nazi Army (And One Another)
By Michael HasewThe most contentious of command rivalries during World War II involved General George S. Patton, Jr., of the U.S. Read more
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Walking in the Steps of the Overmountain Men at Kings Mountain
by William E. WelshThe Patriot riflemen slowly crept uphill through thick growth and large boulders toward the enemy position atop the low ridge in the backwoods of South Carolina on the afternoon of October 7, 1780. Read more
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No Glory at The Battle of Glorieta Pass
By Chuck LyonsIn June 1861, two months after Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War, 44-year-old, Louisiana-born Henry H. Read more
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Game Features: Iron Sky: Invasion
By Joseph LusterOne question has loomed over mankind for decades: What if the Nazis have been hiding out on the dark side of the Moon ever since the end of World War II? Read more
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Defending the ‘Admin Box’ In Burma’s Arakan Region
By William B. AllmonIn the misty early morning of February 4, 1944. thousands of Japanese troops marched silently through the jungle in the first move of their counter-offensive against the British-Indian XV Corps attempting to advance south in the Arakan region of Burma. Read more
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Italy’s Daredevil Torpedo Riders
By Chuck LyonsOn a dark night in September 1941, moving at periscope depth, an Italian submarine edged into Gibraltar Bay near the British harbor. Read more
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The Vietnam War: The Swift Boat vs. the Destroyer
by Michael HaskewIn addition to standard aircraft carrier and warship patrol operations in the open sea, naval action during the Vietnam War developed a character of its own. Read more
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Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm & the Triple Alliance
by Michael HaskewWhen Kaiser Wilhelm II acceded to the throne of the German Empire in 1888, the young nation was already an economic and military force with which to be reckoned on the European continent. Read more
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The Viking Raid on Lindisfarne Monestary
by Michael Haskew“Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race…The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets…Behold the church spattered with the blood of the priests of God,” wrote a Northumbrian scholar named Alcuin in the wake of the horrific Viking raid on the great monastery at Lindisfarne in Northumbria in the year 793. Read more
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The M72 LAW & the RPG in the Vietnam War
By Michael HaskewAmong the most effective and feared weapons of the communist North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong insurgency during the Vietnam War was the rocket-propelled grenade, commonly known as the RPG. Read more
