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Wolfhound

By Joseph Luster

There are plenty of alt-history World War II games to choose from out there, but few hit quite as hard as WOLFHOUND, the latest from Chasm developer Bit Kid. Read more

The gallant men of the 1st Maryland (Confederate) Battalion charge the Union position atop Culp’s Hill on the morning of July 3 in a painting by Don Troiani. The attack, which was repulsed with heavy losses, sought to take advantage of the success of the previous day when the Confederates captured lower Culp’s Hill.

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“Many Gallant Men Were Lost”

By Kelly Bell

Rifle flashes erupted at intervals on the base of the slope. The flashes gave away the location of the confederate troops advancing in large numbers in the darkness of the night of July 2, 1863, on the eastern side of Culp’s Hill southeast of the town of Gettysburg. Read more

Once the airborne troops neutralized the batteries within range of Utah Beach, 4th Infantry Division soldiers, shown here, found it easier to move inland.

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Screaming Eagles At Brécourt Manor

By Kevin Hymel

The mission was simple: “There’s fire along that hedgerow there. Take care of it.”

The order went to First Lieutenant Richard “Dick” Winters, the acting commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Read more

The Bismarck had tremendous firepower. She is shown firing her four double 15-inch guns in a modern painting.

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Trapping the Bismarck

By John Protasio

Baron Burkhard von Mullenheim-Rechberg’s life was in danger. An officer aboard the German battleship Bismarck, Mullenheim-Rechberg was at his station as his ship was trading salvos with several British warships. Read more

An Israeli pilot in an American-made F-16 fighter jet cruises at low altitude over the Tigris River en route to the al- Tuwaitha nuclear facility near Baghdad.

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Operation Babylon: Israel’s Strike on al-Tuwaitha

By Kate Cooch

In the late 1970s, it became clear to the international community that Iraq, under the despotic leadership of Saddam Hussein, was attempting to acquire nuclear weapons through the guise of buying nuclear reactors for power generators. Read more

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Yelling Like Demons

By Mike Phifer

Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart was in all his glory. It was June 8, 1863, and the Confederate cavalry commander was putting on a grand review of his horse soldiers on a plain west of the Rappahannock River near Brandy Station, Virginia, for none other than General Robert E. Read more

A bus leans against the side of a terrace in Harrington Square after a German bombing raid on London. The bus was empty but 11 people were killed in the houses two days after the start of the attacks.

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Taking the Brunt

By Alan Davidge

Most of the action during the Battle of Britain in the late summer of 1940 took place over southern England where Royal Air Force Spitfires and Hurricanes began to dominate dogfights against their German rivals. Read more

General Louis Faidherbe leads a marche regiment at a review at Bapaume on January 3, 1871. Faidherbe’s marche battalions comprised roughly 40 percent of the French Army of the North at the Battle of St. Quentin.

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St. Quentin Miniature

By Bruce Weigle

Miniature wargames have been played by hobbyists for decades, both for pure entertainment and as part of legitimate research. Read more

German Fallschirmjägers in 10 gliders crash-landed on a 6,990-foot plateau near the Hotel Campo Imperatore on Gran Sasso in the central Apennine Mountains on September 12, 1943. The mission objective of Operation Oak was to rescue deposed dictator Benito Mussolini from house arrest and bring him to Munich.

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Rescuing ‘Il Duce’

By Colonel Bernd Horn, Canadian Army (ret.)

The flimsy canvas flapped loudly as it buckled in the wind. More bothersome for the nine German commandos crammed inside the narrow fuselage was the constant motion—sinking, then sharply rising, as the DFS-230 glider ploughed and pitched through the towing aircraft’s turbulent wake. Read more

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