Latest Posts
Who is Julius Caesar? Facts vs Myth
By Brooke C. StoddardFew men’s names resonate after two thousand years, for it is a very long stretch of time. Read more
Latest Posts
Latest Posts
François de Neufville: King Louis XIV’s Man At Flanders
by Vince HawkinsFrançois de Neufville was born in 1644 in France, the son of Nicolas de Neufville, the Marquis of Villeroi. Read more
Latest Posts
General Anthony McAuliffe
When word of the German breakthrough in the Ardennes Forest began to move back to the rear echelons of the American command in Western Europe, General Maxwell Taylor, commanding officer of the 101st Airborne Division, was attending a conference in Washington, D.C. Read more
Latest Posts
Vikings had the Tools and Traits to Succeed
“The woeful inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the Church of God in Holy-island, by rapine and slaughter,” reads the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, referring to the savage sacking of the island monastery off the coast of Northumbria in ad 793. Read more
Latest Posts
Game Features: Tom Clancy’s The Division by Ubisoft
What if you combined the best parts of Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon with a Right At Your Door-type premise?
That’s basically what you’re going to get in Tom Clancy’s The Division, the franchise’s upcoming massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. Read more
Latest Posts
Operation Husky: The Allied Invasion of Sicily
by Jonas GoldsteinThe necessity for another front as a diversion to German operations in the Soviet Union was early recognized by both the Western Allies and the Russians. Read more
Latest Posts
Normandy’s Little Victims
By Kevin HymelWar spared no one. As modern armies clashed in France’s Normandy countryside, French civilians found themselves in the crossfire or on the receiving end of bombs and heavy weapons. Read more
Latest Posts
Attila the Hun & The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
By Brooke C. StoddardHistory is as solid as bricks. Things happened and they can’t be changed.
But they can be seen with a fresh eye, or they can be noted for effects not apparent at the time. Read more
Latest Posts
William B. Hazen: The “Best-Hated Man” of the American Civil War
Quarreling With Every Officer… Even The PresidentIn the course of his 30-year military career, Hazen managed to quarrel with various superior officers, up to and including the president of the United States. Read more
Latest Posts
Life in the Navy: From the First Spanish Armada to Pearl Harbor
By Keith MiltonThe age of the sailing warships lasted less than three hundred years, beginning roughly with the battle of the Spanish armada against the English fleet under Howard and Drake in 1588, and ending at the Battle of Navarrino in 1827, the last major naval engagement fought completely under canvas. Read more
Latest Posts
Nicholas Oresko Left a Brave Legacy.
By Mike HaskewOn October 4, 2013, Nicholas Oresko passed away in an Englewood, New Jersey hospital at the age of 96. Read more
Latest Posts
To this day, the cause of the sinking of the HMS Hood during the hunt for the Bismarck is still disputed.
By Mark SimmonsThe British Admiralty Board of Enquiry into the loss of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, presided over by Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, concluded, “The sinking of Hood was due to a hit from Bismarck’s 15-inch shell in or adjacent to Hood’s 4-inch or 15-inch magazines, causing them to explode and wreck the after part of the ship.” Read more
Latest Posts
“The Light Of Battle Was In Their Eyes.”
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, commonly known as “D-Day.” Of course, every military operation had a “D-day,” which simply means the date that the operation is scheduled to begin. Read more
Latest Posts
Getting Goosebumps
This year I feel deeply honored to have been chosen by the Smithsonian Institution to lead three 70th anniversary D-Day trips to England and France (one took place in May; the other two are scheduled to take place in September and October). Read more
Latest Posts
SoldatenKaffee: Indonesia’s Nazi-Themed Cafe
By Mike HaskewSoldatenkaffee, named after a café frequented by German soldiers in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, is, thankfully, one of a number of choices for luncheon fare in Bandung, Indonesia. Read more
Latest Posts
World of Tanks Blitz
By Joseph LusterIt can be a hefty challenge to shrink a majorly popular console/PC experience down to the world of mobile gaming without sacrificing too much of what made it work in the first place. Read more
Latest Posts
Britain’s hollow-cast toy soldiers continue to attract collectors decades after their manufacture.
By Joe WallisMany militaria collectors can trace the roots of their hobby to their childhood encounters with toy soldiers. For American kids in the 1930s and 1940s, this may have been with three-inch-tall American-made Manoils or Barclays from the local dime store. Read more
Latest Posts
The French sought revenge after the fall of Louisbourg.
In the wake of the impressive victory by American colonists over the French at Louisbourg in June 1745 during King George’s War (1744-1748), the Province of Massachusetts Bay braced for the inevitable raids by the French and their Native American allies on two fronts. Read more
Latest Posts
E3 2014 Showcase
This year’s E3 was full of the typical spectacle one expects from a slew of games and promises that are still waiting in the relatively distant future. Read more
Latest Posts
MRAP Ambush
By Christopher MiskimonOn Thanksgiving Day 2009, a convoy of three mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles left the south gate of Camp Ramadi, Iraq, and began the roughly three-mile journey to the Provincial Government Building. Read more
