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The latest game in the Ghost Recon franchise is called Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, and is out on the PC, PS2, Xbox, and Xbox 360. Read more
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876, resulted in Lt. Read more
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The Second World War remains a lively setting for first-person video gaming. The default characters in these games are often young OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers, and World War II Combat: Road to Berlin for the Xbox and PC from Groove Games, is no exception. Read more
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Lately, many of the scores of books published on the topic of World War II purport to be the “untold story” of such-and-such battle, campaign, or event; very few of them are actually untold stories, and most are merely the rehashing of the familiar. Read more
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Dear Editors:
I subscribed to your magazine hoping to see something about merchant marines during WWII. It seems you have forgotten them. Read more
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One of the coolest things the internet has enabled gamers to do is team up and battle together. Read more
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The freezing winter of 1777-1778, which General George Washington’s Continental Army spent on the verge of starvation and collapse at Valley Forge, was a turning point of the American Revolution. Read more
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What set the original Call of Duty game apart from other first-person shooting games set during World War II is the feeling it delivered that the player was just a small part of a much larger battle. Read more
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For anyone who has ever wondered why the men who came home from the war refused to talk with their families about their experiences, this book may hold the clue. Read more
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It was 7:25 am when Flight Captain William Motes brought his plane down for landing. The arrival of the American Airlines Convair on October 30, 1955, marked the beginning of the first day of regularly scheduled passenger service at Chicago’s new O’Hare International Airport. Read more
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Dear Editors:
Thank you for your article by Richard Rule concerning the Katyn Forest massacre, its subsequent cover-up by the Soviets, and worse, the lack of further action by the Western Allies. Read more
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The fighting on Okinawa proved to be some of the most savage of the Pacific War. As American soldiers and Marines blasted the island’s Japanese defenders from reinforced bunkers, caves, and even tombs, incidences of incredible bravery and self sacrifice were commonplace. Read more
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The third banzai charge that night struck the inexperienced, worn out infantry with the force of a blowtorch. Read more
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Battlegoat Studio’s Supreme Ruler 2010 for the PC has the look of an old school, tabletop, map-and-counters-wargame, but it has the video game smarts that make it vastly more playable than a board game with this much detail would be. Read more
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The United States has been called a country made by war. Read more
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Dear Editors:
I am writing to point out a small flaw in the June 2005 issue. I was highly impressed by Ludwig Heinrich Dyck’s “Charlemagne: Warlord of the Franks.” Read more
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Combat Mission: Afrika Korps is new game for PCs from Battlefront. As the name implies, the setting is the Mediterranean Theater of World War II including North Africa, Italy, Sicily and Crete. Read more
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The magnitude and geographical scale of the battles and campaigns on the Eastern Front during World War II and the number of soldiers involved in these operations are almost beyond the understanding of Americans. Read more
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Dear Editors,
WAAC, WAC, ANC, ARC, WASP, WAFS, WAVES, WAMS, SPARS—why don’t we ever see any articles about the brave women who served? Read more
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It was indeed an unprecedented effort to raise a continent from the devastation of a horrific world war, and ironically, the idea belonged to a career soldier. Read more
