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Author Richard Bessel’s latest book is, without doubt, a monumental work that goes in depth to chart Germany’s progress from a flattened, vilified foe to a bulwark in Europe’s efforts to resist Communist expansion and takeover. Read more
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After maybe five minutes of playing Ubisoft’s Heroes Over Europe for the Xbox 360 and Playstations 3 (reviewed), I had the sudden urge to run to my computer, hop online, and see whether or not some offshoot of Factor 5 was behind the game’s development. Read more
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Dear Editor,
This magazine is amazing! One of the best out there, and by far the most interesting.
I’ve had a fascination with World War II for years. Read more
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Author Margaret Mitchell is remembered as one of the “first” citizens of Atlanta. Gone With the Wind, her novel of the Old South and the perseverance of heroine Scarlett O’Hara, stands as a literary classic which spawned one of the most famous motion pictures of all time. Read more
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When the Duke of Monmouth began his doomed, quixotic march across southern England in the summer of 1685, one of the few volunteers to join him from royal-dominated London was a 24-year-old hosiery merchant and trader named Daniel Defoe. Read more
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When you sit down to start a game of Hearts of Iron III for the PC from Paradox Interactive, you can choose any year from 1936 to 1948 and play one of 150 different countries. Read more
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Besides being a destroyer of lives and cities, war also destroys precious works of art and the ancient monuments of civilization. Read more
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During the darkest days of World War II, the British War Office considered any and every option to combat the burgeoning Nazi menace on the continent of Europe. Read more
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During World War II, the American aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) was known as “the Ghost Ship” to the Japanese Imperial Navy because every time they thought they had sunk her, “the Fighting I” came back for more. Read more
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Battlefield 1943, for all its back-to-the-shores World War II familiarity, is the type of online-only game that remains relevant well past its July debut. Read more
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Not every war is a hot one. East India Company for the PC from Paradox Interactive is a strategic trading game with tactical combat elements set during the high age of European sail and exploration. Read more
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On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a cargo ship built at the end of World War II and converted to an electronic surveillance vessel in 1964, was patrolling 14 miles off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula. Read more
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For most people, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands today as the towering epitome of the ideal wartime leader: tough-talking, unflappable, judicious. Read more
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From the frozen reaches of the Arctic Circle to the swelter of the Pacific, the men of the U.S Merchant Marine delivered 95 percent of the planes, tanks, artillery pieces, and troops who fought the Axis during World War II. Read more
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With the possible exception of King Philip himself, no individual in King Philip’s War achieved more unwanted notoriety than a 39-year-old mother of three and minister’s wife named Mary Rowlandson. Read more
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Although it covers the same time period, region of the world, and subject as the first Crown of Glory, Matrix Games’ new Crown of Glory: Emperor’s Edition for the PC is in fact such a complete overhaul of the original that it is basically a new game. Read more
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By mid-1862, despite the humiliating Union defeats in the East, the Civil War in the western theater was gaining momentum. Read more
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Men of War from 1C Company for the PC is a real-time strategy game set during World War II. Read more
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In the West, the Soviet Union’s contributions to the Allied victory over the Third Reich are generally unknown or underappreciated. Read more
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Dear Editor:
Regarding your July 2009 issue about Marshal Philippe Pétain: Most of us subconsciously view the French through British eyes, and the results are often unbalanced even when the facts are accurate. Read more
