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The Best Military History Books of 2000
By Major Dominic J. CaracciloThis millennium year was replete, as most years are, with terrific works of military history. Following are my choices as the year’s best. Read more
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Keeping a World Perspective
Dear Editor,
I read with considerable interest John P. Sinnot’s article in the October 2000 issue of Military Heritage concerning the French and Indian War, here especially about General Braddock’s march on Fort Duquesne. Read more
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Genghis Khan and The Mongol Campaigns
Starting with practically nothing (at one point he and his family were reduced to digging up roots to have something to eat), Genghis Khan became the conqueror of the largest land empire known to history. Read more
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Panzer General III and Battle Cry
By Eric T. BakerThe Panzer General Series from Strategic Simulations Incorporated is one of the most successful wargame franchises of all time. Read more
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Presidio Press’ ‘Vinegar Joe’s War: Stilwell’s Campaign’s for Burma’
By Major Dominic CaracciloHistorians often claim that the Allies, and most particularly the Americans, won World War II, as Nathan Prefer writes in his introduction of Vinegar Joe’s War: Stilwell’s Campaign’s for Burma, (Presidio Press, Inc., Read more
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The Iron Cross
By Stephen Thomas PreviteraIn most people’s mind the Iron Cross is inescapably linked to the Third Reich. Indeed, Adolf Hitler was responsible for adding a “marching swastika” front and center, to the decoration’s black core in 1939. Read more
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The Vicksburg Campaign
When the sun set on the Confederacy, the stars began to rise and shine, none more brightly for Northerners than that of Lincoln, and for Southerners than those of Robert E. Read more
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Commanding WWII tanks and Japanese feudal armies.
By Eric T. BakerSteel Panthers was a great DOS game. It was WW II tank combat at its best in the same format as all the wonderful Avalon Hill games people used to play before they had computers. Read more
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Lee’s October ’63 Move on Meade
By Robert SuhrIn early October 1863, three months after the setback at Gettysburg, three months after Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was rebuked by his esteemed superior Robert E. Read more
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When the Gods Die: the Battle of Otumba
By Brian GeeslinIn the morning hours of July 8, 1520 Hernando Cortés, with the remnants of his army of Spanish adventurers and Indian allies, neared the crest of mountains overlooking the plain of Otumba (the Spanish corruption of the Nahuatl name of Otompan), an Indian city dominating the valley along Cortés’s line of march. Read more
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Movie Stars at War
By Richard L. HayesIn the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Americans volunteered for the U.S. armed services in unprecedented numbers. After their service, some would go on to become Hollywood and television stars, like Johnny Carson, ensign on the battleship USS Pennsylvania, patrol craft officer Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis of the submarine Dragonette. Read more
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Good reading on an officer of the Revolution, Admiral Nelson, Tankers in Iraq and more.
By Major Dominic J. CaracciloJohn Laurens’ identity, indeed his very being, was tied directly to his status as an officer during the American Revolution. Read more
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Imperial Russian Army Uniforms
By Kevin MahoneyThe Russian Army of World War I is comparatively unknown in the West when compared with the other major combatants of that conflict. Read more
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Cornelius Ryan
Anyone interested in reading military history sooner or later comes around to Cornelius Ryan, known to his friends as Connie. He wrote stunning books on World War II: The Last Battle, about the struggle for Berlin; A Bridge Too Far, about the ill-fated race to cross the Rhine bridge at Arnhem in 1944; and, of course, the book with which his fame will always be linked, The Longest Day. Read more
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255th Infantry Regiment
Dear Editors,
I enclose a copy of pages 60 and 61 of your May 2005 issue, which may contain an error. Read more
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Hell in the Pacific
By Mason B. WebbAsk anyone today to name the three toughest, most important battles of World War II and chances are good that the name “Iwo Jima” will be at, or somewhere near, the top of the list. Read more
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Infamous Camp Beechwood
By Christopher MiskimonOn July 15, 1937, a convoy of trucks slowly drove up the Ettersberg, a wooded hill a few miles north of the German city of Weimar. Read more
